Does anybody have a recommendation for an esata card, cheap? I hate spend $30 for a card when I spent $58 for the motherboard. I do not need anything fancy . . . minimum would be 1 external esata port, pcie x1. Any other ports would be a bonus. Thanks.
You can easily turn unused internal SATA ports into eSATA ports by buying an expansion port adapter.
What do you mean by "1 external esata port, pcie x1"? Do you mean that you need a PCI-E x1 eSATA adapter? What board are you using? What are you trying to do with the add-on card?
I have a pair of Toshiba 1.5TB esata/usb external hard drives that I want to use for back up. I have a MSI 785gtm-e45 -- 6 sata ports. None of the ports are hot swappable and they are all full.
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