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Posted at 12:55 PM on Saturday 05/29/10 by
Ben
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Newegg has the Thermaltake BlacX ST0005U USB & eSATA Docking Station for $32 - $10 rebate [Exp 6/30] = $22 with free shipping. Turn your hard drive into a USB external hard drive. Check out this quick look at how it functions. [Compare]
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    swreynolds - Posted 1:15 pm PDT 05/29/10 (911 Posts)  Report Spam

    The quick look only discusses the USB only version.

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    AELITA - Posted 2:19 pm PDT 05/29/10 (750 Posts)  Report Spam

    This station has eSata too but speed is limited to 1.5gb/s because of the Initio chipset used and size is up to 2tb.

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    sam - Posted 3:18 pm PDT 05/29/10 (336 Posts)  Report Spam

    Works great for me.

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    bsg75 - Posted 3:42 pm PDT 05/29/10 (688 Posts)  Report Spam

    I don't understand why you need a chipset to go from SATA to eSATA.

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    Elpee - Posted 8:35 pm PDT 05/29/10 (1371 Posts)  Report Spam

    Used eSATA to copy 1.5TB movies. Took over 6 hours to be done. Crap eSATA...

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    dave_c - Posted 10:10 pm PDT 05/29/10 (17707 Posts)  Report Spam

    AELITA wrote:
    This station has eSata too but speed is limited to 1.5gb/s because of the Initio chipset used and size is up to 2tb.


    That is irrelevant unless you actually planned on using a top end SSD externally.

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    grumpydog - Posted 9:26 am PDT 05/30/10 (1649 Posts)  Report Spam

    I have a WD mybook esata+usb external. while it was VERY fast transferring files to it on the esata, it slows down my computer significantly on shutdown and startup if it is connected.
    Does any one else have this problem?

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    Departure1 - Posted 2:03 pm PDT 05/30/10 (797 Posts)  Report Spam

    Don't even bother with eSATA anymore.
    eSATA is faster than USB 2.0, but USB 3.0 is out and it's much faster than eSATA. You just need a USB 3.0 PCI card or a MB with it already and of course an USB 3.0 hard drive case.

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