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    Just got a Rosewill RC-604 eSATA PCMCIA card

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by dickeywang, Aug 28, 2007.

  1. dickeywang

    dickeywang Notebook Consultant

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    Installed into my Thinkpad T60 and here is a HD tune benchmark with a Seagate 7200.9 300GB HDD in a Rosewill RX-353S usb/eSATA enclosure:

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    The transfer rate is topped around 63MByte/sec so it is not as fast as the one with Expresscard interface, but I am still happy with the fact that I can get better performance from the external HDD than my internal Hitachi Travelstar 5k250 :D .

    I don't have a second eSATA enclosure so I don't know how it will perform with two eSATA HDDs connected.
     
    dickeywang, Aug 28, 2007
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    powerpack Notebook Prophet

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    Very nice, blows my internal out of the water! 11.7 RA very nice.
     
    powerpack, Aug 28, 2007
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    tillertyler Newbie

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    Thanks to your post, I'll be receiving my card today. I'll post some benchmarks comparing this notebook card to a direct sata connection on a desktop using the same harddrive (WD 250 7200 in a NexStar3 eSATA/USB enclosure). Should be interesting to see how close it can get to actual desktop performance.

    I'll also try posting some numbers using both eSATA ports at the same time. This is definitely the most promising (low-cost) eSATA Cardbus solution I've seen. All the other brands: addonics, Vantec, syba seem to have a bottleneck in either write/read performance (40MB/s or less in either category).
     
    tillertyler, Aug 31, 2007
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