Only gone and bought the wrong caddy.

t_aitch · 30 Jan 2008 at 10:57

Ok, the situation at the moment is im taking my large sata hard disk out of my old computer so i can connect it to my laptop through an external caddy, sounds simple.

Basically ive gone and bought the wrong IceBox, i bought one with an eSata port on the back rather than a USB port. Silly me.

I can't contact the seller unfortunately, so what i was thinking about doing was getting a USB to eSata converter. Does anyone know how well these work? Would it effect data transfer speeds dramatically?

I had a search around but theres not that much info about them.

Or should i just sell it and get the right product.

badbob · 30 Jan 2008 at 10:59

Could just use it, a esata drive is useful for backing up data. And I'd prefer one over USB, which tbh is crap- slow and unreliable bus protocol.

If your mobo doesn't have esata you can pickup internal sata to esata PCI backplates.

t_aitch · 30 Jan 2008 at 11:03

Thing is though, the main use is for my laptop. My main pc im selling off (only want the laptop)

Would the best option for speed be to get a SATA PC card for the laptop then?

badbob · 30 Jan 2008 at 11:05

Yeah.
I've used USB 2 hard drives, laptop desktop and I wouldn't go back to them (reason why I bought a NAS) Sick of not detecting the drive, sometimes auto disconnecting itself, or lost data/partitions. Depends on the computer, and the moon cycle. Might work fine for a few weeks, and then takes an hour to detect the bloody thing.

C4EVA · 30 Jan 2008 at 12:40

You can get PCMCIA 2 Port eSATA Cardbus Card of ebay for about £17 delivered. That would be the best option imho.