FWIW, our own experiments with eSata were disappointing. First, few mobos actually supported hot swapping - in fact, none of ours did. We could have lived with that, since our old drive caddys require powering down to swap.
However, at random times the drives would suddenly slow down, apparently to PIO speeds. This wasn't always obvious, e.g. when just offloading a file. But when an editor was editing video it was obvious. Anyway, we quickly fell back to USB2 just for reliability, and never really tried to figure out what might have been causing the problem. Some have speculated it's the relatively crappy eSata connectors, but I dunno. I figured USB3 would be here soon enough to make the point moot. Little did I know! ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
