eSATA

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Hey guys, just purchased an eSATA PCI card, now I was wondering do I plug the hard drive directly in to the PCI card? If so great, if not thats horrible lol.
 

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You should see an eSata cable along with the drive when bought new. That plugs into the port on the drive casing as well as into one of the ports on the addon card. Another cable should run out to one or more sata ports on the board itself.
 

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Night Hawk said:
You should see an eSata cable along with the drive when bought new. That plugs into the port on the drive casing as well as into one of the ports on the addon card. Another cable should run out to one or more sata ports on the board itself.
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Okay, so the internal Hard Drive would plug in to the eSata PCI card? And does the SATA cd/dvd drive also need to be?
thanks
 

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    *Modified*Dell Inspiron 531s
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    AMD Athlon 64 X2 2.3GHz
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    Dell RY206 0RY206
    Memory
    4GB Corsair XMS2 PC2-6400 DDR2
    Graphics Card(s)
    XFX GeForce GTS 250
    Sound Card
    Creative X-Fi XtremeGamer 5.1 Surround Sound
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell SE198WFP 19-inch Widescreen Flat-panel LCD
    Screen Resolution
    1440x900
    Hard Drives
    Seagate Barracuda 320GB 7200RPM
    PSU
    LOGISYS 575W SLI Ready ATX12V
    Case
    Cooler Master CM 690
    Cooling
    2 120mm, 4 vents optional fans
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    Dell Stock
    Mouse
    Microsoft Wireless Notebook Mouse 3000
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With an internal drive the only time you would plug it into an addon card is on a board that lacks any sata ports. The addon card would have a sata controller card not simply one with ports.
 

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  • Manufacturer/Model
    Custom built desktops =2 Toshiba replace HP laptop
    CPU
    AMD Phenom II X4 975 Deneb core 3.6ghz
    Motherboard
    Gigabyte GA-790XTA-UD4
    Memory
    Kingston Hyper X 1.5v DDR3 PC12800 1600mhz 16gb
    Graphics Card(s)
    MSI Radeon HD 5750 1tb
    Sound Card
    Creative X-Fi XtremeAudio PCIe
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Asus 19" HP 20" second lcd main HP 20" remote pc.
    Screen Resolution
    1440x900, 1600x900 main - 1600x900 2nd desktop
    Hard Drives
    WD Black Edition 1tb Sata II -2
    WD SAS "Heavy Duty" RE class 2tb - 2
    External usb/eSata WD Black 1tb main -1
    External usb only WD Green Power 1tb -1
    PSU
    Corsair 750w 750TX main - Corsair 600w remote
    Case
    Antec 900-2 - SSD compatible eSata ports 2 - NZXT Vulcan 2nd
    Cooling
    Zalman CNPS9900A cpu, twin front 120s, top 200cm, rear 120
    Keyboard
    AZIO Ilumminated keys gaming keyboard/volume control usb
    Mouse
    MSI Interceptor D200
    Internet Speed
    30mbps upgrade
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