E-SATA connection

[Patten]

Well, I bought an external hard drive and its both USB and E-sata capable and I figured that the usb would be fast enough but if i wanted more speed out of the drive I would have to figure out how to connect a sata cable up to my laptop, and that is where the problem lies.

I do not have any sata connections on my laptop so I would have to get some sort of adapter. I have found some but I am curious as to how well they would work. I have found ones that would fit into the expresscard slot on my laptop which seems like it would work pretty good something like this: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2254078&CatId=1455 Seems like a decent deal to me....

If you guys have any input on how good you think this would work or anything that would work better I would definatly like to hear it.

 

[Asus]

I'd think it would be good. Although I don't think that is an Express card. This one is.

This review shows the external drive they reviewed got 30MB/s using USB and 50.9MB/s using E-SATA (last graph). As a comparison, using regular SATA inside the PC they got 51MB/s.

Of course every drive performs a bit differently but E-SATA is your fast external connection.

 

[Patten]

Or do you think that this would be a little bit faster yet?

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2930508&CatId=1455

 

[Asus]

Well, they go in different slots. If you have a PCMCIA slot then you get the one you linked to first. But if you have an Express slot then get the 2nd one.

 

[Patten]

I have both slots on my computer, the price isn't too much more than the other one....I think that I will get it.

Thanks

 

[Asus]

I have both slots on my computer, the price isn't too much more than the other one....I think that I will get it.

Thanks

Ahh cool. Yeah it goes up to SATA 3.0gb/s unlike the other.