Macbook and eSATA

[Verted]

I'm getting a caddy that I will use an external hard drive. I'm not really sure how eSATA works. Its a connection right? - Sort of an alternative to Firewire of USB?

My Macbook doesnt have an eSATA port (as far as I am aware), so is there any way I can make use of the 1.5GHz/sec speed of it, or do I have to settle for a USB or Firewire caddy?

A USB caddy would be way too slow, but I cant seem to find any SATA 2.5" Firewire caddy's. What should I do?

 

[b0rn2sk8]

Macbook has no eSATA. You have to use firewire or USB

 

[BillytheImpaler]

The point is a bit moot since unless you're connecting to a rather large striped RAID array you'll never see anyway near the limits of the eSATA, USB 2.0, or Firewire 400 protocols anyway. With good "mobile" 2.5" disks you can see around 50 MiB/s transfer. That's still under the limit of USB 2.0 which is 480 Mb (60 MB) per second.