lewmur Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 I've had a Sata III laptop HDD in a USB 3 external encloser for some time. But I recently bought a used laptop that had an eSata port so I decided to spend a few bucks and buy an eSata encloser and put the HDD in it. Worked out much better than I expected. The drive benchmarked as twice as fast as the internal drive. Sequential read/writes on the c:\ were about 35mb/sec and the e:\ about 75. Random on the c;\ rated 19mb and the e:\ 36. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 Awesome! Very nice indeed! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ross549 Posted July 23, 2014 Share Posted July 23, 2014 The internal drive was probably 4200rpm...... Adam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lewmur Posted July 23, 2014 Author Share Posted July 23, 2014 The internal drive was probably 4200rpm...... Adam No, it is a regular 5400 rpm sata II. Nothing wrong with 35mb/sec. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goretsky Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 Hello, eSATA is a specification for the physical connection of the drive to the computer, not a new/different protocol, so everything runs at the same speed that an internal SATA connection would. Sadly, like FireWire, it's getting harder to find notebook computers with eSATA connectors built into them. Regards, Aryeh Goretsky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 I have a esata sata 1.5GB external enclosure and a esata sat 6GB dock. Both work really well and the dock is as fast as an internal drive of similar quality.The enclosure is not as fast but much faster than usb 2. Docks are great. I keep my drives in some coloured plastic sleeves and slot them in the dock when needed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESATA#eSATA 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted July 24, 2014 Share Posted July 24, 2014 The biggest differences will be on the RPMs of the drive compared to the internal SATA drives inside the laptop which can be anywhere from 4200 to 5400 rpm and you can often get up to a 7200 rpm drive to go in an eSATA enclosure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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