I just received my portable HDD in the mail. It has a USB 2.0 and an eSATA. I assume it is powered through the USB (which can also be used as the data transfer). Anyway I can not figure out how to transfer data using the eSATA. The plug and play with the USB works great, but as soon as I plug the eSATA into the drive, it disapears out of My Computer. I tried rebooting with the eSATA in and it tried to boot from my empty drive. Any help would be very appreciated!
@UtahPilotChip Note: There is a difference between eSATA & eSATAp (Self powered) True eSATAp drives includes Delock, Lindy, Dynex, Lacie. So insist in an eSATAp capable product.
@SeikoPsycho i would imagine so to use the full of the hardware but i think you would just install all the drivers and it would see what is there as installed and whats not as removed upon boot. No idea but I am rather interested in giving something like this a try one day. Externalizing my multiboots that I don't use often and only keeping my win7 setup internal would be of great utility.
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Bro, Good work. I support you.
eSATAp (eSATA + USB) is more economical and simpler than USB 3. Why?
1) Its already on 50% of the machine.
2) 99% of machine have SATA. Upgrading on old machine simply require a zero driver USD 12 Delock bracket.
3) Its compatible with USB 2.0 and can HotSwap! too.
4) eSATA is found in NAS (need port multiplier feature)
5) NCIX & Crunchgear have proven the simpler economical eSATAp is actually as fast if not faster than USB 3.0
wingbliss 1 year ago
I just received my portable HDD in the mail. It has a USB 2.0 and an eSATA. I assume it is powered through the USB (which can also be used as the data transfer). Anyway I can not figure out how to transfer data using the eSATA. The plug and play with the USB works great, but as soon as I plug the eSATA into the drive, it disapears out of My Computer. I tried rebooting with the eSATA in and it tried to boot from my empty drive. Any help would be very appreciated!
UtahPilotChip 1 year ago
@UtahPilotChip Note: There is a difference between eSATA & eSATAp (Self powered) True eSATAp drives includes Delock, Lindy, Dynex, Lacie. So insist in an eSATAp capable product.
wingbliss 1 year ago
Won't you need to install drivers for each different computer you use it on?
SeikoPsycho 1 year ago
@SeikoPsycho i would imagine so to use the full of the hardware but i think you would just install all the drivers and it would see what is there as installed and whats not as removed upon boot. No idea but I am rather interested in giving something like this a try one day. Externalizing my multiboots that I don't use often and only keeping my win7 setup internal would be of great utility.
AxiomofDiscord 1 year ago
Is this possible with say older os's like win ME
or 9x
And where do you go to get these neat tools
ATF
AxiomofDiscord 3 years ago