notebook SATA drives?

On May 5, 7:05 am, Andrew Hamilton <Ahamilton90... RemoveThis @yahoo.com> wrote:
> Do 2.5" SATA drives have the same interface as 3.5" drives?
> If you want to upgrade your notebook's hard drive, and the notebook
> does not have a second drive bay, how do you do it?
> Thanks
> -AH

<mscotgrove RemoveThis @aol.com> wrote in message
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Yes

External USB enclosure


Andrew:
Another consideration would be to purchase an ExpressCard with an eSATA port
so that you could connect a SATA external HDD to that device. See, for
example, http://www.meritline.com/1x-e-sata2-port-pcmcia-expresscard.htm

This assumes, of course, that your notebook is equipped with an ExpressCard
slot. If it has the older CardBus (PCMCIA) slot then you would need the
latter type of device. They come with both a "normal" SATA port as well as
an eSATA port. Do a Google search on "Cardbus with SATA port" for various
models.

The great advantage of the SATA interface over the USB interface is data
transfer speed. Considerably superior to USB. Also, (at least in theory)
with the ExpressCard device, the external SATA HDD connected to that device
is bootable assuming the drive contains a bootable OS obtained via a
disk-cloning program such as the Acronis or Casper programs. We're still
experimenting with that aspect. But we have never been able to achieve
"bootability" with the CardBus device.
Anna
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Previously Anna <myname.RemoveThis@myisp.net> wrote:

> On May 5, 7:05 am, Andrew Hamilton <Ahamilton90....RemoveThis@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Do 2.5" SATA drives have the same interface as 3.5" drives?
>> If you want to upgrade your notebook's hard drive, and the notebook
>> does not have a second drive bay, how do you do it?
>> Thanks
>> -AH

> <mscotgrove.RemoveThis@aol.com> wrote in message
> news:12804db0-8f85-4ce6-be6d-38195be997d2@m3g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
> Yes

> External USB enclosure


> Andrew:
> Another consideration would be to purchase an ExpressCard with an eSATA port
> so that you could connect a SATA external HDD to that device. See, for
> example, http://www.meritline.com/1x-e-sata2-port-pcmcia-expresscard.htm

> This assumes, of course, that your notebook is equipped with an ExpressCard
> slot. If it has the older CardBus (PCMCIA) slot then you would need the
> latter type of device. They come with both a "normal" SATA port as well as
> an eSATA port. Do a Google search on "Cardbus with SATA port" for various
> models.

> The great advantage of the SATA interface over the USB interface is data
> transfer speed. Considerably superior to USB. Also, (at least in theory)
> with the ExpressCard device, the external SATA HDD connected to that device
> is bootable assuming the drive contains a bootable OS obtained via a
> disk-cloning program such as the Acronis or Casper programs. We're still
> experimenting with that aspect. But we have never been able to achieve
> "bootability" with the CardBus device.
> Anna

There is one more advantage to eSATA: You can query the SMART attributes
and run SMART selftests. To me that is worth the extra cost of getting
combined USB+eSATA enclosures, with USB for conveniennce.

Arno
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