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    D901C PCMCIA eSATA card

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by pasoleatis, Jul 1, 2009.

  1. pasoleatis

    pasoleatis Notebook Deity

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    Hello,

    I was thinking to get an PCMCIA eSATA card for my D901C. I was ready to order it, but then I noticed that there is no PCMCIA slot. Is there any other way to get a eSATA slot on D901C?

    PL
     
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    Gophn NBR Resident Assistant

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    there are ExpressSlot to PCMCIA adapters you know?

    cheap too. :)
     
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  3. pasoleatis

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    I do not know. What is the ExpressSlot? Maybe there is ExpressSlot to eSATA adapters.

    PL
     
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    yes, there are expresscard to esata adapters.
     
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  5. pasoleatis

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    Where is the expresscard located? What is the transfer rate it can get?

    PL
     
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    flode Notebook Consultant

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    im using an expresscard 2 esata adapter. it has 2 esata ports which work parallel. im realy happy with this card. im running two samsung 103uj (1tb) in extern cases on it.

    no driver issues with vista 64 bit...

    transfer speed is up to 100 mb / sec thats the cap of the harddiscs so the expresscard controller doenst slow down the drives.

    here is a link to the expresscard esata adapter:
    http://www.delock.de/produkte/grupp...ss_Card_zu_eSATA_II_61382.html?setLanguage=EN

    hope i could help a little bit

    greetings flode

    ps i dont know if your notebook has an expresscard slot my m580tu has it
     
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    pasoleatis Notebook Deity

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    Thanks for the link.
    I managed to find the express card slot on my laptop. I am little confused about the speed. 100 mb/s usually means 100 mega bit/s which is roughly 12.5 mB (mega bytes/s).

    PL
     
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    Expresscard is an amalgam of pcie & usb, with the e-sata using the pcie, so transfer speeds are fine, I'm almost certain that flode meant 100MB/s
     
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    The alternative is that he meant milli bits (little b).. ..which might be a dat slow.. :)
     
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    hide type e-SATA ExpressCard US$17-delivered

    Found this flush-type expresscard e-sata on ebay. This performance benchmarks shows anything from 70MB/s to over 90MB/s using the pcmcia versions of these cards. I don't have any expresscard benchmarks handy. Expresscard has a faster 2.5Gbps ink so should run faster. At any rate, it's better than USB's ~30MB/s.    		 [​IMG] [​IMG]
     
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  11. theriko

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    Please, mb/s is milli- bits... :D

    Edit: damn you for changing your post and making mine redundant! ;)
     
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  12. pasoleatis

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    Thanks for the answers. Probably the transfer rate is 3.0Gb/s. That is quite ok. The maximum speed I ever got when copying files from one hdd to another was 60MB/s.

    PL
     
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  13. theriko

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    No hard drive can reach anywhere near 3Gb/s, some of the best SSD's are nearing it now though (on read).
     
    theriko, Jul 1, 2009
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