Seagate 500GB eSATA external hard disk drive
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After installing the card and loading the driver, I connected the 500GB eSATA external drive, which has a street price of around $400. The rear of the external drive features just the SATA connection and the AC adapter. This...
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After installing the card and loading the driver, I connected the 500GB eSATA external drive, which has a street price of around $400. The rear of the external drive features just the SATA connection and the AC adapter. This particular drive, while physically identical to Seagate's external USB/FireWire drives, does not support those two connection standards. Seagate says the drive is up to five times faster than its USB/FireWire-based external drive solutions. It does feature pushbutton backup capabilities just like Seagate's other solutions but has a published data transfer rate of 3Gb per second, which is considerably faster, at least on paper than the other external solutions. On an unscientific test of the drive, it was able to write 476MB of data in just 9 seconds. Compare that to 24 seconds for the same data to be written to the USB version of Seagate's 750GB external pushbutton drive, and 17 seconds for the data to be written to the host computer's hard drive, a Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM drive. That puts the eSATA drive at almost three times as fast as the external 750GB Seagate drive, and one second more than twice as fast as the host computer's Seagate hard disk drive. 3.38GB of data written to the eSATA drive from the host computer's hard drive took 7 minutes. It took 15 minutes 40 seconds for the data to be written to the USB version of Seagate's external 750GB Seagate drive. So it is safe to say, at least with the writing speed, that the drive is twice as fast as Seagate's 750GB USB/FireWire external drive. The Seagate 500GB eSATA is pretty fast for an external device. No official hard disk benchmarks were used due in part to the host system running Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2, of which there are no known (at least to the author) published benchmarks. First Impressions The Seagate 500GB eSATA external hard disk drive will undoubtedly find its way onto the desks of audio and video editors, as well as special effects and 3D animation artists, pretty much all digital media creators who need an external storage solution or have found their internal drive bays full. The eSATA drive offers super fast write speeds and can serve as a viable backup solution for large data volumes. If you are looking for an external solution that can store large amounts of data and is faster than USB or FireWire based external devices, then the Seagate 500GB eSATA external hard disk drive is your speeding ticket. The drive ships with a one year warranty and free lifetime technical support. Highly Recommended. For more information, visit www.seagate.com Drive Specifications • 7200 RPM • 3Gb/s data rate • 16MB cache • Horizontal dimensions: 7.125" D x 6.5" W x 2.25" H • Vertical dimensions with pedestal: 7.125" D x 3" W x 6.75" H • Weight: 2 lb. 9.6 oz. PCI host adapter card • Supports up to 3Gb/s transfers • Allows up to two eSATA devices • Dimensions: 2.52" W x 4.72" L System Requirements • PC users: Available PCI 2.2 or higher card slot, Microsoft Windows XP, 2000 Pro, Server 2003 (backup software does not support Server 2003) • Mac users: Available PCI 2.2 or higher card slot, Mac OS 10.4 and higher
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Seagate 500 GB 3.5" External SATA Hard Drive 8MB Cache ST3500601... 500GB eSATA External Hard Drive From: $270 to $437
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