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- Extend your internal motherboard SATA ports to the back of your PC to produce external eSATA ports
- Allows for connection of high speed eSATA external hard drives to your PC
- Standard PCI back plate design for easy installation - Cable length: 30cm
- Compatible with SATA I or SATA II (150 or 300)
- Supports hot plugging of devices without restarting your PC
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Product Description
Add high speed eSATA connectivity to your PC without the need to purchase an eSATA controller card. Many motherboards have unused internal SATA ports. Make use of them with this eSATA back plate. The internal cabling connects directly to your motherboard and produces 2 eSATA ports.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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The device works as expected, but it has some annoyances which I had not appreciated before I purchased. The good thing is that a hard drive which previously transferred data at 25MB per second under USB, increased its data transfer to about 98MB per second under eSATA.
The annoyances then... This device does NOT give you an eSATA interface in the regular sense. It just allows you to connect an external drive to the motherboard using an eSATA cable. That drive is seen by the computer as if it was an internal hard drive. Therefore, drives attached in this way are NOT hot-pluggable. I had to go into the BIOS to activate SATA sockets 3 & 4. Without doing that, the drives were not seen by the computer at all. With the BIOS updated, all worked fine. However, if I then boot the computer without that eSATA hard drive attached, the computer gives an error stating that it cannot detect the hard drive which should be in SATA socket No 3 (or 4). You can choose to continue the boot, ignoring the error, but it certainly is an annoyance. I for one will be deactivating the interface (in the BIOS) for regular computer use, and only re-activating it when I have a major backup job.
There are proper PCI eSATA cards which work exactly as eSATA is supposed to do, but those cost a lot more. This is a cheap and cheerful imitation. You gets what you pay for!!
The annoyances then... This device does NOT give you an eSATA interface in the regular sense. It just allows you to connect an external drive to the motherboard using an eSATA cable. That drive is seen by the computer as if it was an internal hard drive. Therefore, drives attached in this way are NOT hot-pluggable. I had to go into the BIOS to activate SATA sockets 3 & 4. Without doing that, the drives were not seen by the computer at all. With the BIOS updated, all worked fine. However, if I then boot the computer without that eSATA hard drive attached, the computer gives an error stating that it cannot detect the hard drive which should be in SATA socket No 3 (or 4). You can choose to continue the boot, ignoring the error, but it certainly is an annoyance. I for one will be deactivating the interface (in the BIOS) for regular computer use, and only re-activating it when I have a major backup job.
There are proper PCI eSATA cards which work exactly as eSATA is supposed to do, but those cost a lot more. This is a cheap and cheerful imitation. You gets what you pay for!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Pros:
- Easy to install.
- Plenty of cabling to reach the SATA ports.
- No PCI board for motherboard so reduced space (good if you have big cards like graphic cards).
Cons:
- Did not come with a mounting screw.
- Because it does not fit to the motherboard part of the backplate is loose.
- Easy to install.
- Plenty of cabling to reach the SATA ports.
- No PCI board for motherboard so reduced space (good if you have big cards like graphic cards).
Cons:
- Did not come with a mounting screw.
- Because it does not fit to the motherboard part of the backplate is loose.
The cables on this just aren't long enough to reach from the back of my Mac pro to the front, and they certainly wouldn't reach to the bottom corner of the motherboard on my PC, Dissapointing, but would have been great if the cables had been just a tiny bit longer.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Great product
This is a cheap way of connecting an esata device if you have a spare sata port(s) in your pc.
Just to confirm and clear up any confusion this does not automatically give your... Read more
Just to confirm and clear up any confusion this does not automatically give your... Read more
Published 10 months ago by DJ Hause
Does what it says on the tin
I was a little bit sceptical but the item was cheap enough to try. Although my mobo has an eSata socket it behaves erratically - external drives show as present until I try to use... Read more
Published 15 months ago by A. W. Gegg
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