Right im fast running out of space on my computer so im thinking of gettin an external drive, 1. so i can take it places 2. when i do take it places i can share and recieve

Anyway, i thought to myself oooo eSATA sounds good for one (faster transfer rates and all that) but i dont know if eSATA will plug straight into my SATA connectors on the motherboard or weather you need some sort of adaptor :P

Does anybody know how eSATA connects? cheers

Right im fast running out of space on my computer so im thinking of gettin an external drive, 1. so i can take it places 2. when i do take it places i can share and recieve

Anyway, i thought to myself oooo eSATA sounds good for one (faster transfer rates and all that) but i dont know if eSATA will plug straight into my SATA connectors on the motherboard or weather you need some sort of adaptor :P

Does anybody know how eSATA connects? cheers

E-sata uses different connectors to normal sata.. but you can buy backplane adaptors that just plug into your internal sata ports and give you a couple of E-sata ports on the back of your PC

Heres more info

thankyou for the info thats a big help

Most E-SATA devices are based on the SATA II (3.0Gbps) standard rather than the previous ones.

Shouldn't cause any major clangers but you might find a few old motherboards that won't play dice with the adapters,

i thought about getting an external drive that also has a tv out and some imbedded software making it a media drive tooooo, aria do them pretty cheap.

maybe a thought.

i thought about getting an external drive that also has a tv out and some imbedded software making it a media drive tooooo, aria do them pretty cheap.

maybe a thought.

Aria is a spot on website, highly recomended

Is eSATA still stupidly priced?

Or have prices become sensible compared to USB and Firewire?

well i'v been looking at this: Buy 500GB WD My Book Premium ES Edition

The WD is a far better buy than freecom, those freecoms have always failed in high usage

The WD is a far better buy than freecom, those freecoms have always failed in high usage

Be careful what you say about a companies products... you never know who might test the parts for their products.

if they are listening the failure rate is astonishing, nearly every one we bought, from HQ, has gone back

Really....

What failure modes are you experiencing and do you know what disks are in them.

i dont, i should be in office tomorrow afternoon ill see if i can find out, it was pretty bad as a customer had a faulty tape drive and used 2 of the big 3.5" external models to back the server data up. they both went faulty, they basically did what old floppy disks do and said they werent formatted even though there was 100s of GB on them, that said i have 2 FHD20 i have used to back up and still a year later they are perfectly fine