I migrated my brand-new MyBook to NTFS (Raid1) so that I could archive some 500GB of data I have…
Well, USB 2.0 is being painfully slow @ 7MB/sec in Windows 7 so I that is why I’d like to use the eSATA connection on my HP dv5z laptop. I formatted as NTFS and plugged in power and then plugged in eSATA to my computer.
Disk does not mount or show up in disk management on eSATA, only USB, which is too slow…
eSATA cable is known to be good, disk is fully operational on Firewire and USB
The Esata Adapter on the PC might not be compatible with the unit, you can check this list here for Compatible Esata Controlers. However this will be easy to determine by trying with another computer with Esata or different Esata cable.
I wonder if the RAID has something to do with it. Anyways, I think the eSATA controller in my HP is one from AMD… It uses a SCSI host controller. (device manager was not very helpful beyond that)
I don’t have a spare eSATA cable with me or another computer to test it with…
Full HP model- HP dv5z-1000 CTO laptop AMD Turion 64 x2 TL-70 processor with an ATi Radeon 3200 graphics chipset.
Oh well, I can always live with firewire and single-disk eSATA, thanks guys!
can you even find an esata controller for a mac? that would be good to know.
Currently don’t know of a Mac with Esata connectors, they now have Thunderbolt so I doubt it will be implemented, since thunderbolt is a lot faster than Esata.
