will this eSATA card work with the E1505

will this Rosewill RC-605 SATAII ExpressCard http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16839200006
eSATA card work with my E1505??

I need an external 750GB 3.5 HDD with eSATA to connect to my laptop.

Also, any recommendations for a 750GB HDD form newegg
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...50014+1035915133+103530113&name=400GB+-+750GB

 

By the way, does the E1505 have ExpressCard 54 or 38 or PCMCIA?
What is SATAII, 3GB/s?

 

express card.

sata is an interface like ide is. it is the current fastest.

 

So will it support both an ExpressCard 54 and 38?

I know what SATA is but what is SATAII?

 

SATA II is the new standard which doubles the burst speed to 3.0 Gbps. The transfer rate for SATA I and II is mostly the same... around 60 MB/sec... I know this for a fact as I ran HD Tune on both my internal 500 GB internal SATA II drives and an external eSATA enclosure with a 500 GB SATA II drive but jumpered to operate in SATA I.

If you buy an enclosure like Vantec eSATA/USB combo to go with your SATA II hard drive from Western Digital or Seagate, you will still need to "jumper" your hard drive to operate at SATA I as the Vantec (not sure about the other enclosures) only support SATA I.

 

Thanks cyclo...do you know if there is a great risk for the three components (card/HDD/enclosure) not working together on a laptop (E1505)...or rather, is it unusual to have eSATA on a laptop and in such a premature stage that it wouldn't be worthwhile?
Both the ExprCard and enclosure are of the same brand and newegg even sells the HDD as a combo deal with the ExprCard saving me $15.



(The enclosure from Rosewill RX-358-S 3.5" USB & eSATA Ext. Enclosure
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817173043)

 

The risk is probably very small that one of the 3 won't work together. However, with the eSATA enclosure/drive/adapter/laptop combo, the "hot plug" capability might not always work depending on your interfaces... you might have to reboot the PC/laptop before the external drive gets recognized... On one of my desktops with an Intel Bad Axe 2 motherboard, hot plug works fine but on another desktop with an ASUS PK5-VM motherboard, hot plug does not work and I need to go to device manager and do a "scan for hardware changes" for the eSATA to be recognized.

One final advise, depending on the drive you chose, it might get real warm/hot inside an enclosure. My experience is that the 500GB Western Digital SE16 SATA II drive runs hotter than a 500 GB Seagate 7200.10 SATA II Drive albeit the WD drive is slightly faster. You might want to also consider getting an enclosure with a built in fan if you intend to run it for long periods of time and not just for backup.

On my laptop, I just use the USB to connect to the Vantec but I might get an eSATA adapter too especially if I decide to start running my Virtual Machines directly from the eSATA enclosure.

 

I think I will go ahead and buy the ExpressCard 54/HDD/enclosure.
One last question though, the ExpressCard I want to buy looks like a ExpressCard 34, not 54 - one is slim the other standard sized, will the 34 one work on my ExpressCard 54 standard laptop slot?

 

It probably will as both 54 and 34 plug in into the same 26 pin interface. Check out this image from wikipedia: Express Cards