Vanishing ice Posted August 4, 2007 Share Posted August 4, 2007 I am going to connect a eSATA drive to my Hacintosh. What is the best eSATA adaptor around? PCIe X1 preferred, but ordinary PCI adaptor is also aceptable. Thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59013-good-esata-adaptor/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanishing ice Posted August 5, 2007 Author Share Posted August 5, 2007 By the way, is eSATA actually the same thing as SATA? Or they are two different interfaces? Tried to search for an answer, but couldn't find that. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59013-good-esata-adaptor/#findComment-420949 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PM! Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 eSATA is an external plug interface. You need a External Disk With eSata connection and an eSATA PCI/PCIe card to plug to your motherboard. My Lacie PCIe card work natively on 10.4.8 /9 /10 /11 but not on Leopard for the moment... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59013-good-esata-adaptor/#findComment-512674 Share on other sites More sharing options...
shoarthing Posted November 20, 2007 Share Posted November 20, 2007 I am going to connect a eSATA drive to my Hacintosh. What is the best eSATA adaptor around? PCIe X1 preferred, but ordinary PCI adaptor is also aceptable. Thanks . . *all* these PCIe hosts use the Sil3132; for the OK [& cheap] one I use see signature: spec here Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59013-good-esata-adaptor/#findComment-512689 Share on other sites More sharing options...
BJMoose Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 Just to clarify things a bit...it's the eSATA and SATA connections that are different. If your pci card has eSATA connectors and your drive has an SATA connection, a simple eSATA to SATA cable will do the trick quite well. Same thing for the opposite case. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59013-good-esata-adaptor/#findComment-513163 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PM! Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 For my part, I have both of the two kinds of cards : An eSATA to SATA card (witch was given with my mother board : SATA Bracket) and a LaCie eSATA PCIe card (Sil 3132). - The SATA Bracket works in 32 and 64 bits modes. But no hotpluging - The eSATA PCIe works only in 32 bits mode beceause of the Silicon Image's driver. In 32 bits no hotpluging nether. It used to work in the fisrt times i installed OSx86 on an AMD 64 X2 with a Gygabyte motherboard (nForce4 controller) and JaS 10.4.8 (32 bits). I found a trick that is supposed to make hotpluging works on Sil 3132 in 64 bits mode and using the Silicon Image's driver for OS X. But it didn't worked for me as my card isn't recognised by the Silicon Image application of the windows controls pannel. See http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=24254 <<-- ooZberg 's post. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59013-good-esata-adaptor/#findComment-587678 Share on other sites More sharing options...
justvisiting Posted January 21, 2008 Share Posted January 21, 2008 The cord length limit to eSata is 6ft or 2m not all eSata enclosures work properly (nexstar, i'm looking at _you_), you may have to limit the HD speed to 1.5gb via jumper Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59013-good-esata-adaptor/#findComment-587895 Share on other sites More sharing options...
WACOMalt Posted March 13, 2009 Share Posted March 13, 2009 Any updates on this? and I couldn't find a place to buy that Lycom one. Also which ones support 64bit? and which ones would also work on my windows side? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/59013-good-esata-adaptor/#findComment-1106194 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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