That's surprising. The Thermaltake BlacX's internal interface is SATA.
I would have expected many of your older drives to be IDE and EIDE
which would also require a separate power connection. Maybe your "old"
drives aren't so old?
Chuck Norcutt
Rand E wrote:
> I use this one (Thermaltake) and have used it for several months now. I
> am very pleased with it. With it, I can use all the smaller drives that
> have been removed from my CPU case due to obsolescence (ie smaller
> capacity) . I have never had any issues with it.
> Rand E
>
> Moose wrote:
>> Joel Wilcox wrote:
>>
>>> Good timing! Thanks Chuck.
>>>
>>> I'd thought I had another bay, but I only have two and they're both filled
>>> on my Optiplex 620. I guess I'm going to have to retire one of my 250 GB
>>> drives to swap in the 1.5 TB.
>>>
>>> This device is looking attractive for backing up:
>>>
>>> http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817121046
>>>
>>>
>> I don't know about that one. At least Chuck and I, and I seem to recall
>> someone else here, are using this model.
>> <http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153071&Tpk=thermaltake%20blacx%20esata>
>>
>> eSATA drives don't hot swap on my Vista. I need to ask for a disk rescan.
>>
>>> Can be used with either USB or eSATA. Anybody try one?
>>>
>>>
>> I posted some performance data on mine to convince C.H. that eSATA can
>> be much faster than USB 2.0. The 1.5TB drives are quite speedy, quiet a
>> bit faster than my 500GB drives.
>> <http://www.moosemystic.net/Gallery/tech/Misc/WDC1500_eSATAvsUSB2.jpg>
>>
>> Moose
>>
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