esata and external enclosures

[Pimmo2000]

Challening one this one .. been Googling and asking around .. hoping someone here can help.

So I have two Sata enclosures, two completely different makes. Both work via USB and both have e-sata ports. Obviously e-sata being faster I want to use them.

My MB (TUF gaming X570-plus) doesn't have e-sata so I bought a PCIe card which has been picked up by windows and installed no issues but everytime I turned the boxes on, they light up and then shut down as if nothing is connected. Connect USB again and they work fine.

I assume the issue was the PCIe card so I sent it back and got a more expensive card. Card again is installed no issues, but the cages will not stay on, they start to boot, I assume detect no data connections and shut down.

I have zero clue what to do now.

Anyone got any ideas? I've read around the forum and the posts on this topic just mention that it's plug and play ...

 

[tnx]

If I think right that board has USB Type C. Have you though about eSATA to USB C ?
I am guessing these enclosures are for 3.5" drives and have an external power supply.
Then if the drives are 2.5" maybe buy new 2.5" enclosure with USB Type C connections then no external power supply is needed.

I used eSATA a lot back with my socket 775 and my Z77 boards.

 

[Sam__]

What happens if you power them up with no physical connection? Do they power off? That will give an indicator of the effect of the esata.

 

[Pimmo2000]

If I think right that board has USB Type C. Have you though about eSATA to USB C ?
I am guessing these enclosures are for 3.5" drives and have an external power supply.
Then if the drives are 2.5" maybe buy new 2.5" enclosure with USB Type C connections then no external power supply is needed.

I used eSATA a lot back with my socket 775 and my Z77 boards.

I've got one port and two enclosures

What happens if you power them up with no physical connection? Do they power off? That will give an indicator of the effect of the esata.

They do power down yes.

 

[Pimmo2000]

seems it's not just me stuck with this one ..

 

[tnx]

Just wondering..

Is you eSATA PCI card the type that has SATA connectors that connect to the boards SATA ports or the type which just plugs into the PCI slot...

I think I would go for the type which has to be connected to the boards SATA ports.

Would this look to ugly inside you case, SATA cables everywhere.

Which type have you got ?

 

[t31os]

If the external drives are powered on after the system, trying scanning for hardware changes in device manager.