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    Recommend an Esata cable

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by benselby2a, Sep 19, 2007.

  1. benselby2a

    benselby2a Notebook Guru

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    Hi

    Im trying to get an Esata external disk for my laptop. I initially bought the expresscard, cable and WD My Book ES disk. The disk ran fine via USB, but was not detected via Esata. I spent a whole day trying various things and came to the conclusion that either the cable or the Esata connection on the drive was at fault.

    So I returned the My Book and got it replaced with a Seagate Freeagent Pro drive with USB and Esata. The USB again works fine but the Esata doesn't (except when I managed to put the cable in some crazy position in the drive connection) so I guess the cable is dodgey.

    Can anyone recommend a decent ESATA to ESATA cable, 1m long would be fine and Im looking to buy it in the UK.
     
    benselby2a, Sep 19, 2007
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  2. neezee

    neezee Notebook Enthusiast

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    i believe that the eSATA doesnt supply power to your external HDD, thus, you will need to connect your USB cable first then connect the eSATA after and your should be able to use your external through eSATA... and im pretty sure that the mybook has faster write speeds through USB than the freeagent... though i would have just build my own external
     
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  3. obsolete

    obsolete Notebook Evangelist

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    I believe those are both 3.5" hdd setups, so they are powered by an ac adapter. I have a Seagate 500GB external and it came with the cable which works fine. I've never tried finding another one.
     
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