Will this external HDD setup work with my M1330?

I need a new high-capacity external hard drive and am leaning towards assembling my own this time around. I am planning on getting a 1TB Samsung Spinpoint F3 to put in this Vantec eSATA enclosure, and using this eSATA expresscard.

I just want to make sure everything will be compatible and run smoothly on my M1330. Will I be able to able to experience the speed benefits of SATA II (aside from documents and pictures, I'll mostly be using it to backup/transfer high volumes of music and movies)? Should everything work fine once I assemble the HDD + enclosure and install the expresscard, or will I have to tinker with settings? Sorry if these are newb questions but I have no experience with these things and want to be sure before I purchase anything. Also, do the parts I listed look solid or does anyone have better suggestions? Thanks for the help!

 

There's no reason this shouldn't work without you having to mess with much, but I guess there's always the slight chance that one thing doesn't play well with another, etc.

Your bottleneck here will probably be the hard drive in your M1330... Regardless of how fast the drive or the SATA II bus speed is, it won't matter if your internal drive can't read/write at those speeds. You won't get anywhere near saturating the SATA II bus, though.

I guess my only other comment is that there are cheaper pre-built 1TB eSATA solutions.

 

My laptop hard drive is a 200GB Seagate Momentus 7200.2. That shouldn't hold things back, should it?

 

One last bump to make sure.