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    Esata Express cards

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by regal2800, Jan 5, 2008.

  1. regal2800

    regal2800 Notebook Guru

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    I am interested in getting a esata express 34 card for my mbp. I have an external case with esata however whenever i hook it up to my desktop i have to restart it in order for the computer to read the sata hard drive. Will the mbp read my external the second i plug in the esata cable or do i have to restart my laptop as well? (Is an esata express 34 card plug and play?) Does anyone have any recommendations on which card to use?
     
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  2. hollownail

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    HAh.. i almost made a post about this last night!

    check reviews on newegg.com I think some of the reviewers mentioned they had a MBP and it worked great.

    I think the point of it being e.SATA vs. normal SATA is that they are hot swappable and do not need to be rebooted. Your desktop may not truly be e.SATA but have rerouted a SATA port to be used externally. I could be completely wrong on this whole assumption of course...
     
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  3. sulkorp

    sulkorp Notebook Deity

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    esata is basically the same thing as sata, except its external.
    on pcs its usually just a port on the outside, routed to a sata connecter in the pc.

    I use a esata expresscard, with an external hdd, and it really does speed up transfers and loading games and stuff.

    It basically makes the drive like an internal one.

    I got a bytecc 2 port esata card, and although it didnt say on the packaging or on the site it supported osx, on the driver cd itself it had drivers for osx.
     
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  4. hollownail

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    Hrm... k, so maybe I am wrong on that.

    Regardless, it should still be treated as an external drive and not need rebooting.
     
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