eSATA Question

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I've never used eSATA drives before so this may be a dumb question.

My motherboard came with an eSATA bracket that plugs into the internal SATA connectors. So I buy an eSATA enclosure and stick a Seagate 7200.10 drive in it. Will this perform the same as an internally mounted 7200.10?

Thanks

- JT
 
Short Answer: Yes

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Slightly Longer Answer: Not knowing what board you have...Say you have a MB that only supports SATA 1.5 and you have an internal and external SATA 3.0 they will auto-negotiate down to 1.5. Similarly if you have a MB that support SATA 3.0 and you forgot to remove your jumpers on your SATA 3.0 they will operate at 1.5! So always remember: If you have a board that support SATA 3.0 remember to remove that tiny limiting jumper on your SATA drive.
 
Gotcha, thanks man. Yeah, all of my boards support SATA 3.0 and I always remove the jumpers. I was hoping there wouldn't be a performance hit so I can add another drive to my MicroATX system which only has one internal drive bay.

- JT
 
Yup, should be the same speed internally and externally.

SATAII (aka 3.0) vs. SATA (aka 1.5) really is not a difference anyways as a single drive cannot fill up the bandwidth of even 1.5.

I believe 3.0 works better with hotswapping though.

Either way, you have 3.0 so dont worry about it ;):cool:
 
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