what uses eSATA?

[paulb104]

Could someone explain what eSATA is for? I've seen motherboards and NAS servers with eSATA ports. I've seen PCI cards and PCMCIA cards with eSATA ports, and I've seen eSATA cables.

What I haven't seen, yet, is an actual eSATA device. I use a number of internal hard drives externally with a usb to sata (similar to this http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...9SIA1PU0ME2826), and I am hoping to be able to get rid of that and somehow use the eSATA port.

Is that possible?

Thanks 🙂

 

[Cerb]

External hard drives, mainly. But, see, you're late to the party. USB 3.0 is already replacing eSATA, for external storage, with the exception of NASes that use it for expansion. eSATA is still included on many HDD enclosures, and some name-brand 3.5" external drives.

eSATA was/is good, but was made with a fatal flaw: discrete power. We would all be still be rocking it all over, if the spec had included some minimum 12V amps.

There's nothing wrong with eSATA, USB 3.0 just came along right as it was getting more popular.

I'm pretty sure these are what you're looking for.

 

[Gillbot]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817392030

but I use mine this way:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/SATA-SATA-P...t=US_Drive_Cables_dapters&hash=item5899781444

 

[JackMDS]

Maybe this can further Help.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA#eSATA



😎

 

[Automaticman]

I think this is what you're looking for:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16812119251

It is a cable that has a standard internal SATA connector on one side to plug intoyour internal HDD. Then, you canrun the cable out the back of your case and plug the other end into the esata port on the IO panel of your mobo. If you look closely you can see that one side of the cable has an L shaped connector, while the other side is | shaped.