Recent content by sultroy

It's not a boot drive? The method of connection is the same as for all of the other drives connected to the system?

If you're able to MacGyver the thing, eSATAp has a dual voltage spec and connector. The hollowed out DVD area of the laptop could be replaced with a panel to which you'd connect a dual voltage eSATAp connector. You'd probably be able to grab 12 volts from somewhere within the laptop. Then...

Startech used to have a decent external 2 bay tray-style enclosure with an independent eSata port for each drive and a 100mm fan, but it is long discontinued. All I can think of off hand (with an independent eSata port for each drive) is something in the CRU line. Something like the...

I couldn't find any devices featuring the ASM1351 that have the 4k sector re-emulation feature. One OEM offered to make a custom firmware for the ASM1351 with the feature, but only if I pre-ordered several hundred enclosures. I found enough ASM1153E devices with the 4k sector re-emulation...

In the past, I've used Asmedia's ASM1051(E) and ASM1053(E) USB 3.0 bridge chipsets for 4k sector re-emulation when (for whatever reason) I've needed to format a 2.19TB+ drive using MBR rather than GPT. Several bridge boards from the era in which the 1051 and 1053 were popular offered firmware...