You implied, but didn't state it, that this external drive has both
eSATA and USB connectors. Is that correct? Next question, given the
recent discussion of connector robustness (or lack thereof) how do you
rate the eSATA connectors just based on a visual exam?
Chuck Norcutt
Moose wrote:
> Mike wrote:
>> My new motherboard has an eSATA port so I'm definitely going that route
>> and/or LAN rather than either USB or firewire.
>>
> As I mentioned at the time, there was a great after rebate of a 250 gb
> eSATA drive that I picked up around Christmas. It came with a bracket
> for the eSATA port that connects to the dual SATA/EIDE controller I put
> in last year. The drive works fine on HS-USB 2.0. I haven't done the
> eSATA connection yet, too much going on the last couple of weeks, but if
> it works as promised, that's the way I'll be going for future external
> storage. Depending on who you listen to, it should be at least 4 x as
> fast as HS-USB 2.0, and perhaps more.
>
> Not as many deals out there as for the other connections yet.
>
> Moose
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