wparsonsgisnet Posted September 12, 2007 Share #1 Posted September 12, 2007 Advertisement (gone after registration) I don't want to hijack Wilson Laidlaw's thread on problems with drives on his Mac, but I am seeing stuff about external SATA drives and want to know how they would be implemented in either a windoze or a Mac machine. In windoze, one would add a card to the desktop, I believe; how would one attach the "port" device to a laptop? For a Mac, the same question occurs to me. Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Venkman Posted September 12, 2007 Share #2 Posted September 12, 2007 Some mainboards have external SATA connectors - you can use the drives with those. Additional cards might work as well. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbingman Posted September 12, 2007 Share #3 Posted September 12, 2007 If you have a MacBook Pro, you can add an eSata drive through the expansion card slot. I have not personally tried this, but am pretty sure it will work. Keith Bingman Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
miami91 Posted September 12, 2007 Share #4 Posted September 12, 2007 I don't want to hijack Wilson Laidlaw's thread on problems with drives on his Mac, but I am seeing stuff about external SATA drives and want to know how they would be implemented in either a windoze or a Mac machine. In windoze, one would add a card to the desktop, I believe; how would one attach the "port" device to a laptop? For a Mac, the same question occurs to me. Thanks. For laptops, buy a PCMCIA card. For desktops, a PCI card. Same concept for either form factor, just different buses. The only real advantage to eSATA I'm aware of is speed. It's a considerably faster architecture than either USB 2.0 or FireWire 800 (I believe around 1.5 Gb/sec). But if you're satisfied with transfer speed to external disks over the USB or FireWire bus, then really not worth the bother. Jeff. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geoff Posted September 12, 2007 Share #5 Posted September 12, 2007 ...I am seeing stuff about external SATA drives and want to know how they would be implemented in either a windoze or a Mac machine. Bill, FirmTek, LLC makes the SeriTek/2SM2-E, an ExpressCard/34 which works in both Apple MacBook Pros and PC notebook computers. It supports two external enclosure SATA drives. Geoff myspace.com/geoffotos Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjmcsu Posted September 12, 2007 Share #6 Posted September 12, 2007 Bill, I run a G5 Mac(PowerPC) with 2 internal SATA drives.THere were no extension ports so I added a PCI eSATA(4 port) card & now run 2 1.5 TB SATA drives externally .Works beautifully & easily done. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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