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I just got a very nice deal on a 2TB LaCie USB External Drive for my off-site backups and I was planning to just use it with a good-old USB 2 port, but since it supports USB 3.0, I'm thinking this may be a good excuse to add a USB 3.0 card to my Mac Pro. From what I've read, LaCie's own USB 3.0 card's drivers are locked so it will only work with LaCie's own products. Is that still the case? I also understand there are unlocked LaCie drivers circulating that will work with any NEC based USB 3.0 PCIe card? What cards are you guys using or what would you recommend? Just a follow-up on this. I finally purchased a generic USB 3.0 card with NEC chipset today.

It looks just like this. I installed the official LaCie USB 3.0 driver for OSX and it's running great.

I'm getting write speeds of 100MB/s for large file backups to my 2TB external. This is significantly faster than the 25MB/s I was getting via the Mac Pro's USB 2 ports. One other benefit I notice with respect to using this USB card, is that the drive doesn't erroneously dismount occasionally like it did on the Mac Pro USB 2 ports. It seems there is a with large capacity drives on Apple USB ports that causes this issue, and so far it's unresolved. Anyway, this appears to confirm it's unique to Apple's USB ports/drivers. Here's how it appears in System Profiler. Just a follow-up on this.

I finally purchased a generic USB 3.0 card with NEC chipset today. It looks just like this. I installed the official LaCie USB 3.0 driver for OSX and it's running great.

I'm getting write speeds of 100MB/s for large file backups to my 2TB external. This is significantly faster than the 25MB/s I was getting via the Mac Pro's USB 2 ports. One other benefit I notice with respect to using this USB card, is that the drive doesn't erroneously dismount occasionally like it did on the Mac Pro USB 2 ports. It seems there is a with large capacity drives on Apple USB ports that causes this issue, and so far it's unresolved. Anyway, this appears to confirm it's unique to Apple's USB ports/drivers. Here's how it appears in System Profiler. Hi guys, The card I purchased was branded by my drug store chain.

London Drug's own Certified Data brand. Which is meaningless to anyone outside of Canada. It looks identical to any of the cards for sale on with the light green PCB. I would get any one of these that's cheap and in-stock. In fact, if you look closely at the pic of the LaCie card on their site, it looks identical to the StarTech board on sale at Newegg. I suspect the driver (either Lacie or Caldigit) is just for the NEC chipset. Which all the cards use, and looking at the card, it's the only thing on there of any significance.

Of course, the Lacie driver is rumored to only work with Lacie peripherals, so keep that in mind. There is a hacked Lacie kext around that supposedly allows it to work with any brand of drive though. Mac linux usb loader for pc. The drive I'm using is the (which I got locally on sale for $119) EDIT: BTW, I have no idea if it boots. Hi guys, The card I purchased was branded by my drug store chain. London Drug's own Certified Data brand. Which is meaningless to anyone outside of Canada.

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