Damien Miller wrote:
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008, Brian wrote:
I'm thinking about picking up an eSATA pci card and backing up my data
to an external hd over eSATA using rsync. Is this supported?
eSATA is a conector, cable and electrical specification and otherwise is
identical to regular SATA. If the particular adapter's chipset you have
chosen is supported for SATA then it will work for eSATA.
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PCI card for (e)SATA ???
Does this mean the motherboard hasn't a SATA connector and/or does not
have support?
In that case, you would better be off with a fast USB.
Again MBs with no SATA don't have fast USBs either.
Since you are asking, I guess you should start with establishing a budget:
- eSATA (as USBs) will need an enclosure. These generally come with a
power supply.As do external hard disks. Those cases cost the price of
a hard disk.
- external hard disks often are supplied with two interfaces,
any combination of Ethernet/USB/eSATA. Those with two interfaces usually
are dearer, but the hard disk itself also is of better quality.
- external cabinets can be RAID and/or NAS (these are yet another
computer in fact).
- recent fully integrated motherboards (with SATA and fast USB)
are cheaper than a VGA card.
My eSATA disk is housed in an Antec cabinet (with extra cooling), comes
with SATA and USB. I mostly use the USB interface as this one can
easily be connected and disconnected on almost every box.
eSATA brakets seem to be a spare that is hard to find at standard
PC shops.
