esata

[coxmattycox]

Hi guys,

I am looking at getting an external HD for backup, ideally using esata due to the speed.

Now, my 965-ds3p says nothing about supporting esata but my case has an inbuilt esata port, including the internal cable.

Can I just plug this cable into 1 of my normal sata ports, or does the motherboard speffically need to support esata?

I'm looking at using norton ghost, would that be ok with esata?

Thanks in advance.

 

[DreXeL]

Yes, you can simply plug it into one of the motherboards SATA ports, but don't hot plug the drive, and keep the cable below 1m.

Norton will be fine with eSata connected that way, it'll just see it as another internal drive.

 

[coxmattycox]

Thanks for that,

I am looking at getting this 1. http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-191-SE&groupid=701&catid=1240&subcat=941

To backup my computer HD and laptop HD, tho the laptop will be via USB2.

Is that a good choice or any other 1.5 TB external HD?

Thanks

 

[moppy89]

Whats the speed difference between USB2 and eSATA?

 

[finite]

HD Tach quick test on an F1 in a Sharkoon SATA Quick Port PRO

Read speeds

eSATA

burst 121MB/s
average 88MB/s

USB2.0

burst 36MB/s
average 35MB/s

 

[AbsenceJam]

eSATA is the same as internal SATA, so whatever speed the drive is. USDB tops out at the figures above.

coxmattycox, you can buy 1.5TB drives for under £80 and seperate eSATA enclosures are inexpensive.

 

[CircleFaust]

i was looking at this, seems pretty cool. is there any mechanical drawback to HDDs sitting on end like that?

SHARKOON DUO

 

[HEADRAT]

I wish I'd got a Sharkoon Duo now instead of my WD esata

The orientation of the drives is fine.

 

[AbsenceJam]

i was looking at this, seems pretty cool. is there any mechanical drawback to HDDs sitting on end like that?

SHARKOON DUO

So long as they're reasonably static drives can be in any position happily.

I use one of these (single disk one) all the time for my bare storage drives. Though if you have a spare 5.25" bay I'd suggest getting a trayless hotswap bay instead. Cheaper and the drive isn't exposed.

 

[mrochester]

I've just got an eSATA drive on Sunday, and it's lightning fast in comparison to my old USB2 external drive. My usual full system clone takes over 4 hours over USB, but is cut to just over an hour using eSATA.

 

[CircleFaust]

i am probably going to 'downgrade' from a system to a laptop as all i do is surf the net really (no gaming) but i have two normal SATA drives so want to take them out and use for storage

so whats this eSATA in short?
if i get the sharkoon looks like i'll be future proof too?

 

[AbsenceJam]

i am probably going to 'downgrade' from a system to a laptop as all i do is surf the net really (no gaming) but i have two normal SATA drives so want to take them out and use for storage

so whats this eSATA in short?
if i get the sharkoon looks like i'll be future proof too?

It's just SATA with a different cable.