that I can swap the drive between pc's. The power cord is long enough, so all I would have to do is remove the eSATA plug from the drive, and plug the eSATA from the other pc in. This is the way I'm doing it right now, with USB (of course, it's not internal,...

insulation on the eSATA cable's plug so the metal part of the eSATA plug will go further into the socket on both your PC and the external disk. The eSATA plug cable's pins are NOT connecting to the pins on your PC's connector. JerryF _____________________________ I...

eSata for faster transfer rates just to discover that it ain't plug and play. I don't want to reboot every time I connect it so I started to google for answers. I found out that I need to activate something called AHCI in the BIOS to enable hotswap with eSata....

plug the e-sata plug into one of the motherboards sata inputs like a normal sata drive? You're talking about the internal cable from the motherboard to the case's eSATA port, right? Yes, you should be able to just plug it in to a free SATA port on the motherboard....

is e-sata setups able to easy, fast and safe plug in and out of the pc? When unpluggin USB drives you need to "safely remove..." and many times you cant do that because some program is using it is that the same with e-sata? Thanks Karsten eSATA is...

is because everytime i plug my external through e-sata and switch it on my pc does not open my external, when i plug my usb 2.0 in it straight away opens up saefty remove tool , etc....... the only time my pc recongise my external through e-sata is when i plug...

nvidia SATA II ports it doesn't work. My motherboard says the ports are hot pluggable but my external hard drive won't work via the eSATA. If I plug the eSATA thingy into one of the SATA I ports then it works fine. Why is this? Lastly, now that everything...

in some sort of casing, got old computer cases laying around and other random parts/cables, and hook them up so that it comes out as one esata plug or usb 2.0 plug that i can hook up to a computer like 1 large external drive. So how should i go about doing...

this one did! That one uses all 10 pins, so can't plug it in wrong. Make sure your media are supported by it. It also gives you a eSATA if you plug it into your SATA on motherboard. Not a bad deal for $20 and free shipping. yeah i think so too. i have...