cdanteek Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 "there are good odds another port will start popping up on PCs soon. This one is for eSATA, an external version of the technology that's used to connect hard drives inside the PC chassis. Unlike USB and FireWire, eSATA (external Serial ATA) lets external drives communicate at the same speed as internal drives, so the technology would be welcome for those trying to back up digital photo archives or who need added capacity for storing digital music or recording video." Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grandpabruce Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 "there are good odds another port will start popping up on PCs soon. This one is for eSATA, an external version of the technology that's used to connect hard drives inside the PC chassis. Unlike USB and FireWire, eSATA (external Serial ATA) lets external drives communicate at the same speed as internal drives, so the technology would be welcome for those trying to back up digital photo archives or who need added capacity for storing digital music or recording video." Link I have an eSATA port on my motherboard. I haven't looked at external SATA boxes though. I bet they are expensive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beerman Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Supposed to be 5 times faster than USB 2. That's pretty darn fast and will be great for fast daily backups for large office files too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gi7omy Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Wait until the office klutz trips on a lead and drops one - could work out VERY expensive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdanteek Posted December 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 I have an eSATA port on my motherboard. I haven't looked at external SATA boxes though. I bet they are expensive. Bruce, thanks for posting the scan. Seems your one, that's ready for take off! Newegg shows five eSATA External Enclosures, highest priced $34.99. Newegg cd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grandpabruce Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Bruce, thanks for posting the scan. Seems your one, that's ready for take off! Newegg shows five eSATA External Enclosures, highest priced $34.99. Newegg cd Maybe Santa will get me the enclosure AND another SATA drive for Christmas, except the Santaette that I know, only knows how to turn on the computer, open Spy Sweeper, and get onto the Internet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdanteek Posted December 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Believe me Bruce, Santaettes can handle it, they're born with shopping and credit card skills you and I could only dream of! cd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grandpabruce Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Believe me Bruce, Santaettes can handle it, they're born with shopping and credit card skills you and I could only dream of! cd LOL! But QVC doesn't count. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggrussell Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 One thing that you may not be aware off that I found out about my new HP. SOME motherboards may support (maybenot the correct word in this case) SATA300, but restrict the speed to the lower one. I know it sounds odd, but it is clearly stated at HP's website for my motherboard. My second drive is SATA300. It does run a hair faster than the SATA150, but not much faster and not at what it is rated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdanteek Posted December 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Gary, would you post that link? I would like to read that! cd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grandpabruce Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 One thing that you may not be aware off that I found out about my new HP. SOME motherboards may support (maybenot the correct word in this case) SATA300, but restrict the speed to the lower one. I know it sounds odd, but it is clearly stated at HP's website for my motherboard. My second drive is SATA300. It does run a hair faster than the SATA150, but not much faster and not at what it is rated. You are correct. Mine does support it and does not restrict it. I did an RTFM before I even bought the motherboard. I usually download manuals from websites of the manufaturers of whatever I am thinking about buying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdanteek Posted December 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 RTFM Realtime Traffic Flow Measurement! More engineer talk? cd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grandpabruce Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Realtime Traffic Flow Measurement! More engineer talk? cd LOL, believe it or not, I did traffic flow measurements, way back when. They were for determination on whether or not traffic lights were warranted at certain intersections. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDWAGON Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 I have an ASUS P5WD2-E Premium MB, and it has some very similar ports that the MB you have Bruce. Is the cable for an exterior Sata Box to this connection a special cable that is required or does the cable come with the Sata box when purchased ?? That, and I'm not familiar with these different series of Sata drives and am not sure if the 3 GB/s refers to the same specifications as an internal Sata drive. I'm running all EIDE HD's and optical drives, so haven't delved into the Sata drives to date. Frank... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdanteek Posted December 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 I'm running all EIDE HD's Why you aren't running SATA hard drives with that board, is the question! Frank go here and take a read about! SATA I, 1.5Gb/s - SATA II, 3.0Gb/s http://www.sata-io.org/esata.asp "The External connector has no “L” shaped key, and the guide features are vertically offset and reduced in size. This prevents the use of unshielded internal cables in external applications. To prevent ESD damage, the insertion depth is increased from 5mm to 6.6mm and the contacts are mounted further back in both the receptacle and plug. The external connector and cable are designed for over five thousand insertions and removals while the internal connector is only specified to withstand fifty." cd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggrussell Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 I'm not familiar with these different series of Sata drives and am not sure if the 3 GB/s refers to the same specifications as an internal Sata drive.yes, but that is a lowercase 'b' when referrring to gigaBITS. SATA300 refers to megaBYTES. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDWAGON Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 "yes, but that is a lowercase 'b' when referrring to gigaBITS. SATA300 refers to megaBYTES" Absolutely correct Gary. My mistake in the text description I made. Thanks for the corrrection. And thanks cd for the link regarding eSata. To answer your question about why I'm not using Sata drives rather than EIDE drives, When I purchased the Asus MB I wanted to have a board that had all of the goodies on it, but when I built the computer I had several 200GB Western Digital HD's in my bin, so I just used them rather than invest in some Sata drives. Anyway, the computer is working fine and I guess I'm just to lazy to change it. However, the eSata drive sounds like something I might go for. Now I'll have to look into how to change all my setup on the MB and BIOS to accomodate one. I wonder what actual size of drives those e boxes will accomodate and how big in capacity as well. I guess I just need to some home work, huh ? After the first of the year I was thinking about building another computer, so that might just be the time to forget EIDE and go Sata. Frank.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cdanteek Posted December 21, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 When I purchased the Asus MB I wanted to have a board that had all of the goodies on it, so that might just be the time to forget EIDE and go Sata. Well that probably cost you $50 extra for the board, if you never use it! I run a SATA Raid 0 Strip Array for video work, with two identical Maxtor hard drives. Introducing the Seagate eSATA External Hard Drive. Available in 300GB and 500GB capacities. cd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REDWAGON Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 "Well that probably cost you $50 extra for the board, if you never use it!" You're right cd---But you know the old saying..."Made round to go round" The fact is cd, I WILL probably get some use out of that port one day Frank... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynn98109 Posted December 21, 2006 Report Share Posted December 21, 2006 Unless the port can be added retroactively - "you can't cross a wide ditch in two jumps" Lynn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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