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Comment on What is eSATA? by Mike Scott

Mike Scott — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:41:53 +0000

I would probably bet on the 8168C, but it wouldn’t hurt to download them both just in case.

Comment on What is eSATA? by Donald

Donald — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:30:37 +0000

Thanks Mike, but which one shd I get? the 8168C or the 8111C? i think i found 2 different driver systems for them.

Comment on What is eSATA? by Mike Scott

Mike Scott — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:42:53 +0000

Hi Donald!

I would check the manufacturer’s web site, or possible even use a search engine to search for something like “realtek rtl8168c driver windows 7″

Good Luck!

Comment on What is eSATA? by Donald

Donald — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 07:51:03 +0000

Hi Mike, long time no see. got some problems unrelated to E-Sata, but since this is the most active thread, i might as well post it here. My vista has been doing somewhat bad, maybe too much programs or whatnot, once every 10-15 min it freezes for 2-3 min before able to work again. Ram is sufficient, not like my cores are overloading, yet it just freezes, and the hard drive light aint’ flashing fast (it’s just on standby, but that’s when the comp hangs). So i’ve decided to upgrade to win7 if i were to do a reformat, but that’s where i have a problem for you. Do you know this hardware : Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) Family PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC (NDIS 6.0)? It said there were no information on it for the compatibility test, and last time when i did an upgrade, my internet was as slow as a 28k, thus i had to reformat back to vista. Any clues from you?

Comment on What is eSATA? by Mike Scott

Mike Scott — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:00:38 +0000

Hi Amanda!

Take a look in computer management, Disk management, and see if it has assigned it a drive letter.

To get there, right click on my computer, choose manage. In the list, open “Storage” and then click on “Disk management”.

If you see a big disk without a drive letter on it, right click and choose “Change Drive Letter and Paths”, then add.

Make sure you don’t change the drive letter of your c: drive, or any other drives that you already have.

Good Luck.

Comment on What is eSATA? by Amanda

Amanda — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 09:55:37 +0000

Hi Mike

I bought a terabyte sata harddrive with external manhattan enclosure. It has both usb2.0 and esata external connections, as well as the power connector.
My pc has usb connectors but no esata connector at the back nor front.
I used the usb connection to connect to the pc, but it does not pick the external drive up at all? what can I do?

Comment on What is eSATA? by Mike Scott

Mike Scott — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 02:33:54 +0000

Hi John!

I don’t know a whole lot about macs, so I can’t really answer that. If anyone else knows, feel free to chime in.

Good luck!

Comment on What is eSATA? by John Burril

John Burril — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 19:27:22 +0000

I just purchased a brand new 21.5″ iMac to do video editing from my high-def camcorder. Since the video file sizes are large it takes some time to download the information to my computer. I recently became aware of the eSata transfer speeds and assumed that my iMac would have this port. It doesn’t! The best it has is Firewire 800. Is there any way that I can create an eSata port on my iMac even though it has a non-serviceable enclosure.

Comment on What is eSATA? by Mike Scott

Mike Scott — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:27:45 +0000

Hey Jerry,

That sure should work like a charm, so long as you have a port on both machines that will connect to it.

Comment on What is eSATA? by Jerry Keller

Jerry Keller — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:47:42 +0000

Hi Mike,

I have just received a replacement PC from DELL (Studio XPS 43ST) in place of my DELL (XPS 700). Problem is the new PC came with Vista and I was using XP PRO. I have an ESata port on the Vista machine and I think I may be able to take my XP hard drive, buy an enclosure and be able to copy my info from the old Drive.
Any comment about if this will work ?

Comment on What is eSATA? by Tim

Tim — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:18:25 +0000

Thanks Mike!!! That helps alot.!!!!!!

Comment on What is eSATA? by Mike Scott

Mike Scott — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:09:27 +0000

Hi Tim!

eSata is 1 drive per connector. Although you could buy a RAID enclosure that holds several drives, and you connect to it using only 1 eSATA port.

Here’s one example on NewEgg, although I’m not specifically recommending or not recommending this one/

Comment on What is eSATA? by Tim

Tim — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:12:34 +0000

Thanks for all the time you have dedicated to answering questions! Mine may be a little eccentric. I am thinking about putting together a home server. At first I was just going to build it myself, then, I saw HP has one with windows home server installed. My problem is it only comes with three expansion bays, and the only other way I can add more hard drives is thru the esata port. Is it possible to use the esata port to connect to say, a box that has 3 or 4 more hard drive to kinda daisy chain them, or am I limited to just one drive per esata port. There are no pci interfaces to add an expansion card on these machines, and i would like to have around 12tb. (I have alot of media) Thanks!

Comment on What is eSATA? by Mike Scott

Mike Scott — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:32:28 +0000

No problem Art. When I first heard about eSATA, I had no idea what it was either, which is one of the reasons I did the research for this article.

Comment on What is eSATA? by Art

Art — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:52:44 +0000

Hi Mike,

I just wanted to tell you I also have a HP Laptop with a combo eSATA USB2 port It’s on my dv6t series Pavilion, I just purchased a external HP 1TB drive too but didn’t know what the eSATA was for…Oh well, live and learn….

I do thank you for the info,

Art,

Comment on What is eSATA? by Mike Scott

Mike Scott — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:21:25 +0000

If you don’t have enough USB ports on the laptop, get a USB hub. A USB hub has several USB ports.

Comment on What is eSATA? by Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 04:27:43 +0000

Mike
Thanx……..but plz giv me a brief answer..bcoz i couldnt understand your answer..

Comment on What is eSATA? by Mike Scott

Mike Scott — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 12:31:28 +0000

Sorry Patrick, but I haven’t seen any eSATA devices that aren’t hard drives. If you’re short USB ports, maybe a small USB hub would be a good solution for you.

Comment on What is eSATA? by Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:35:07 +0000

Im using Toshiba L500 series laptop..This lap have 2 USB port & 1 eSATA port,but i think these 2USB ports are not enough for my usage,so im trying to get use from the eSATA port also..so plz guide me how can i use this port (whether can i use this eSATA port 2 use my 3G externalmodem )

Comment on What is eSATA? by Mike Scott

Mike Scott — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 03:23:06 +0000

Doni,

Sorry, you can’t do that. eSATA is only for drives and drive type devices.