what exactly can you do with eSATA port?
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If you have an eSATA port on your PC or your Mac (usually available through an PCI-e expansion card) you can transfer data at just shy of 6gbps. Once considered a professional peripheral connection, they've all but disappeared with the advent of USB 3 and Thunderbolt connections.
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If your computer has an esata port it provides another means of connecting your computer to the Anker device.
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This is an internal SATA drive and most likely you don't have an Esata connection on your laptop. You need to purchase an external DVD drive with a USB connection.
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The card reader functionality requires the USB connection. The sata connection is just for the esata port.
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The is the exact setup that I have. My desktop is connected via an esata port and my laptop via usb 3.0. Both are plugged into the box. All you have to do is use the interface button on the upper right of the ProBox to select which interface you want. Really simple as far as that goes. However, what is critical for the esata connection is that your sata chip supports the correct protocol. Most esata interfaces work with port multiplier capability. However, this box needs to also have support for FIS based switching protocol. If your computer doesn't support FIS switching, you can get one for about $20 to ad in to your system. There is a mediasonic I/O card that supports it and there is also the Silicon Image PCI Express Card ,SIL3132 Sata II controller with two sata ports on it. I have tried both and found that for me the Silicon Image card is easiest to install and update.
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Depends on the size of eSata drive you buy. I use an external NAS and copy it to the eSata and vice Versa. It's a great HTPC. You can just use the eSata however.
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I'm assuming you are referring the I/O panel, in which case its an eSATA3 connector port.
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You don't need an AC adapter. Just plug it into your computer via USB and it should work. Not that you still need USB power if you're going to use eSATA.
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Actually, it did not work for my purpose. My PC fried and I tried to restore files to a new box (USB 3.0 interfaces) from an eSATA external drive. Did not even register. FYI: I then tried a "Newertech" eSATA to USB 3 connector pod (pn NWTADESATA6USB3 -- Barcode: 1309000527) from "Otherworld computing". It worked. I wish you luck
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You will need Qty 2 USB ports, an audio port, a 1394 com port,( if you need it), A four pin connector from your power supply. Also, you can plug the esata connector into a sata port if you do not have esata port. I hope this helps.
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The USB 3.0 chip-set supports sATA, so, no they are internal sATA ports for expansion drives not pass through for the EsATA.
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It turns out the SATA port is just a pass through for the eSata port on the outside of the card. There is no built in SATA port on this board.
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Yes but you would need a esata dock or enclosure about $30 versus just adding it internal
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There is an eSata port only. However, the unit ships with an adapter (eSata-to-USB) so that you can connect the RAID tower to a USB3 port on your computer.
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power adapter, its a 3.5 enclosure... esata never worked on mine for some reason, and i dont like the direction of the fan pulling in dust right on to the middle of my drive, ive had a drive fail in this case and that might have been why, im not sure though
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No. power is provided via USB 2.0 connection when using eSATA. All cables are supplied.
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You should be able to get that cable from almost any electronics store, also here through Amazon. It's an eSATA cable. However, I need to let you now that my experience with eSATA cable has not been happy one. I had at least two different brands of these external docking stations that used eSATA connections. They both had intermittent performance issues. It appeared that the eSATA connector on the cable is very fragile. I do not and will not use that interface for external components anymore.
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Hi Stanley - No, you must purchase an eSATA cable separately. Fortunately they are quite cheap from Amazon.