I got my Sonnet Echo Express Pro

[Alexander Alexandrov]

It will fit in the xMac Mini Server, but you only get a half height second slot for additional PCI cards. The Echo Express Pro would give you room for two full length, full height cards. The Echo Express only handels half length cards.

thank u. so to confirm - Echo Express (not the pro) will not fit the Red Rocket?

[Bob Gundu]

Only the pro will fit the rocket.

[Kennan Ward]

Did you get the sonnet / RR to work yet? I'm about to order one right now.

Thanks but it is not working! Sent to Red Team for help last week!

[C.H.Haskell]

where on earth is the MLink R and will it be faster then the x4 sonnet?

[Bob Gundu]

I guess there are three options:

1) ExpressBox 3T - $979
2) Sonnet Echo Express Pro: $799
3) mLink R - $799

What are peoples preferences? The Magma seems the most robust but also the largest. mLink is small but only one slot. Sonnet looks like a nice balance of both.

[Bob Gundu]

Being this is the first time mLogic has made such a product, I'm not sure how reliable the enclosure is. Anyone else feel the same way?

[Mike Halper]

These types of products are new for everyone.

[Ryland Jones]

These types of products are new for everyone.

True, but at least Sonnet and Magma have experience with PCI interfaces.

[Benjamin Hopkins]

But isn't the RR showing up as 4x in the Magma?

Apparently it has been showing up as both in different systems, although the reported performance is equal.

http://www.reduser.net/forum/showthr...-ExpressBox-3T

[Tom.Wong]

just posted on the other thread but I'll post here as well, got rocket to show up at 8x, just had to swap slot position.

magma is best bang for the buck IMHO. you get the extra slot for a smaller price increase, and can have your cards work at full 8x, or at least show up as that so the software knows it's working at its best. plus magma has had much more of a history with pci expansion while sonnet has only experience with interface cards, and sonnet can be 50/50 with driver support. some products run great, some products have a lot of issues. QIO took a very long time before it got stable. but the echo express pro seems like it's working very well from other user reviews. and the echo is shipping production models now, magma isn't because they are still fine tuning a lot of hardware and drivers.

as for the mlink... all i have to say is, it's made out of plastic and it's really not THAT much cheaper than the competition. just my 2 cents.