Yes, but oddly, my own experience with eSata, and one other editor here, is that it's flaky. i.e., the drive will suddenly slow to PIO speeds. This isn't always apparent. I had to install a disk speed tester to verify when this was happening. A warm reboot would bring the drive back up to speed.
We saw this on two different systems, but with the same model external dock. Multiple SATA drives. Also, hot docking was inconsistent too. Generally, we had to power down to connect eSata. Let's hope USB3 is stable, because I can easily see it replacing SATA internally if it is. On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 12:14 PM, Tom Piwowar <[email protected]> wrote: >>I bought two ESATA 300 HD's recently..very nice for backing up. Nary a >>problem..in the past backing up to USB drives, I'd parse it out in small >>amounts, never dumping hundreds of gigs because it did seem it would error >>out at times. With the ESATA drives I'll drop 500 gigs on the thing and it >>just copies it. > > Then eSATA may be the end of FireWire. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
