Re: external hard drive

esata is a slightly different connector than sata.
the beauty of the esata solution is the ability to turn the drive on and off while the system is running. you normally cannot do that with a sata drive connected to a dell motherboard. i've done it with a lot of addin controllers, like promise.

Tom Scales wrote:
"Journey" <rainbow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:gl9ev21t3nhrs5i4ak103c1fljbrmoqp4a@xxxxxxxxxx
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:29:18 -0500, Journey <rainbow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:21:50 -0500, "Tony Pacc" <tpacc@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

I would like to put a external hard drive on my E521,it has sata ,so when I
buy a hard drive enclosure what do look for,I see eSATA enclosures,I not to
knowledgeable about these things.Also can I install my Dell vista upgrade on
this external HD ,how would that work out,would I have the option to use
vista or XP,I have XP right now on my regular internal drive.Thanks
Have you considered a firewire (or USB 20) external drive? Seagate
makes excellent combo external drives.

Here's a link to a 300G one for $169:

http://tinyurl.com/2tmej2

I think it's good for most purposes, however probably not for running
Vista as a secondary option.
Or, here is a 500G eSATA one for $275:

http://tinyurl.com/2lmuzr

If you have a free PCI slot.


For esata, you shouldn't need a free slot, just a way to run the cable out of the back of the computer. Isn't the eSata connector just the sata connector?

Regardless, USB2 is vastly easier on this machine


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