I am building an external hard drive out of an old PC case and I want to have multiple drives in it to maximize storage capacity. But I want it to plug into only one eSATA port. Are there any adapters or things I can use to do this?
An Esata port is a port you connect a ESata-compatible storage device (HDD/SSD) to. ESata stands for "External Serial ATA", and as opposed to normal SATA, this port can be found on the outside of the computer so you can easily connect Hard drives to your system. The 2 connectors can't be exchanged.
SATA and eSATA are electonically the same, but the construction of the cables and the terminals is different. The major difference between the two is that SATA is designed for use inside a computer system while eSATA is for use externally.
eSATA refers to a SATA port located externally near other onboard ports. Hard drives, SSDs, and optical drives can be connected to this. It is a SATA port on the outside of the case. This port is commonly found on cable DVR boxes as well in order to add additional storage capacity to the DVR cable box.
express Sata basically you can make your internal hard drive external using your esata port the cables are basically the same so all you need is an enclosure that has an esata port, esata is for fast data transfer your can reach speeds over 90mbp/s transferring data.
Look for the eSATA logo next to it. The eSATA logo looks exactly the same as the SATA logo, except that it has the lower case "e" before it.
Off the shelf you can purchase up to a 4 SATA to eSATA adapter, but you will need to contact suppliers directly through an internet search to see if they will custom build you a 5 SATA to eSATA adapter.
No Master Slave designation needed. SATA Drives are plug-add-play. Improve: SATA (Serial) Attached Drives improve data tansfer speeds up to 10-100 GBytes/per. eSATA are (Externally) Serial-Attached Drives and SATA-II(Sata-2) Drives transfer data @ 300GBytes/per. The next barrier of TerraByte data transfer has been developed and is already in production with a (SATA-3) designation attached
There are many different interfaces used. For internal hard drives, older drives use/used PATA (Parallel ATA, originally just called ATA, and commonly referred to as IDE). Newer drives generally use SATA (Serial ATA). For external drives, connections include USB (1.0, 2.0, and 3.0), eSata, and Firewire (IEEE 1394).
Yes.
a sata power connector is normally used for powering sata dvd drives as well as sata hard drives and ssd drives
hort for External Serial Advanced Technology Attachment eSATA is an extension to the Serial ATA standard that enables SATA drives to be attached externally. Prior to eSATA, external hard drives were connected via USB 2.0 orFireWire. While eSATA can provide faster transfer rates than USB or FireWire, it requires its own power connector.http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/E/eSATA.html
Firewire 800USB 1.1 - 15 MbpsFireWire (1394a) - 400 MbpsUSB 2.0 - 480 MbpsFireWire 800 (1394b) - 800 MpbsSATA 1.5 - 1.5 GbpsSATA 3.0 - 3.0 Gbpsesata is much faster than firewire 800