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...
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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... See less
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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