Can I use this cable to connect an external eSATA enclosure with 4 drives to a SATA port on the motherboard?
1377491
Yes but how many eSATA connections does your 4 drive enclosure take? 2 well you need two of these then.
1377492
yes if board has esata hookup and you have enable turn on esata in bios too after put it in,,it is very fast interface
1377493
I use then to ingest movies into the projectors from a hard drive, so I think it should be no problem.
1667715
I have hooked it up to a esata enclosure with 4 drives and it worked with no problem.
2090202
No additional power to the card is needed as both esata and sata drives have separate power connectors. This is not a USB card.
2190505
It should work with all SATA drives. Don't know if this particular drive fits in the case they give you. But the cable should work.
1393469
It's a standard SATA connector on a SATA III cable. If the drive has a SATA plug, then probably. A lot will depend on how the drive and mobo is mounted in the case. Sometimes you need 90 degree connectors and other times straight. Cable length is usually not an issue.
1017931
Thank you for contacting us. Yes, you can use the existing cable if it is standard SATA. Please let me know if I can be of further assistance.
1956221
There's nothing OS-specific about the enclosure, anything with eSATA "port multiplier" support should work fine.
1926670
No it has to be the other way around....the HD's need to be Esata, and the port has to be USB.
2170376
StarTech just clarified it will work only for eSata port on external device and USB 3.0 on PC, not the other way round
1795752
My motherboard does not support eSATAp and the connector on the Satechi is NOT eSATAp. I use the USB port to supply power.
2242241
I, I believe that some of the SATA cable has the power connections built into them and some don't. If you have an power connector off to one side I would say it should work.
1629102
All sata cables should work for any protocol. http://youtu.be/CAevDkRvyok also http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/your_sata_cable_slowing_down_your_data_transfers_max_pc_investigates
2262349
No, this will not work. This cable is for multiport RAID cards. It will not split a regular SATA connector.
1590451
This is kind of what I am using these cables for. I have 3 raw SATA drives mounted in a small drive enclosure with these cables connected to 3 esata connections on my PC. Your drive(s) will need a power source as the SATA cables do not provide operating power for the drives
1768772
Maybe? I am using a laptop that has powered eSata port, and I'm using an eSatap cable that I got from Amazon, separate from the enclosure. Sounds like you have a similar setup. otherwise you will probably have to power the device from USB, but be connected to eSata first and perhaps the connection will be established on eSata. This is how some other enclosures function.
396405
It depends on the sata port you are trying to use with the adapter. Mine did not work with an adapter (I have an old motherboard, apparently the on-board sata ports didn't like being used with an adapter), I got an esata card and it has been working great for nearly 2 years.
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I have a router with an eSATA port that can used for a media drive. Can this HD be used in an eSATA stand alone enclosure with an 80mm fan for cooling? Thank you in advance for any information.