Sounds like I can use the SATA port on the system board.
Thanks Lucas.
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From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Lukas Beeler
Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 3:52 PM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] How is ESATA different from SATA?
On Jan 21, 2008 10:48 PM, <Rick.Chevalier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm looking into adding an external drive (or two) to my home PC. A
lot of the solutions I'm seeing mention connecting using eSATA. I'm
trying to determine if I can use it with the SATA port on my system
board of if they aren't compatible. A Google search helped some but
still didn't clear things up totally.
Some of the enclosures come with what appears to be an expansion slot
connection for the enclosure to connect to. Will this work with the
existing SATA port or does it connect to the system differently? I'm
wondering if it's actually a PCI card.
SATA and eSATA are electrically the same. However, eSATA uses different
connectors. These adapter cards are not PCI cards, they're just physical
adapters, from an internal SATA port to an eSATA port.
They do not have any logic, they do not consume any power. Similar to
the DVI-I to VGA adapters.
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