SIIG 3.3-Feet Serial ATA External Cable (CB-SA0111-S1)

by SIIG

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8 x 6 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000BRQU0Q
• Item model number: CB-SA0111-S1
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #36 in Electronics > Computers & Add-Ons > Computer Components > I/O Port Cards
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 7, 2004

Product Description

Designed to connect eSATA external drives/enclosures to eSATA enabled systems; Works with SIIG eSATA products and standardize to work other brand name eSATA products; Extra shielding and metal contacts provide better EMI protection; Connector: eSATA to eSATA.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

34 of 34 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Quality Cable, February 19, 2009

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N. Boone (San Francisco, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: SIIG 3.3-Feet Serial ATA External Cable (CB-SA0111-S1) (Personal Computers)

eSATA offers greatly increased speeds over USB or Firewire. When I gleefully purchased my 1TB Fantom G-force Greendrive Esata/usb 2.0 I did what I always do - bought an inexpensive generic cable for it. I've never had a problem with other types of cables when trying to save a few bucks, but I learned the hard way that for eSATA, all cables are NOT created equally. Learn from my mistake and do NOT waste money on cheap eSATA cables; if they work at all (cheap cable #1 was DoA), you will find the cable doesn't maintain a proper connection and drive access will be intermittent (cheap cable #2), which can be disastrous for data integrity.

I suspect a large part of this stems from the overall (IMHO) poor design of eSATA connectors in the first place. eSATA doesn't appear to snap as securely into place as firewire or USB, and whomever came up with the eSATA standard chose not to add screws or other fasteners to compensate for this. The problem is compounded by the stiffness of these cables, and in my case, the fact that I must use an eSATA ExpressCard adapter that causes the cable to extend an extra 3" from my laptop - making it vulnerable to being jarred or bumped. In addition, my setup requires a twist in the relatively inflexible cable to connect to my external hard drive, also adding strain.

Since I purchased the SIIG CB-SA0111-S1 3.3-Feet Serial ATA External Cable, I have had zero problems with connectivity. It works flawlessly despite the (again, IMHO) design flaws inherent in the eSATA standard. I highly recommend this cable to anyone for their eSATA needs.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect, November 5, 2007

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G. Flannagan "happy customer" (Ohio, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: SIIG 3.3-Feet Serial ATA External Cable (CB-SA0111-S1) (Personal Computers)

I bought this to connect my DirecTV HD received to a Seagate external SATA drive for more storage space. It works perfectly, and seems to be a quality made cable.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works great with TiVo Series 3, January 31, 2008

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Matthew Vosburgh (Sunnyvale, California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: SIIG 3.3-Feet Serial ATA External Cable (CB-SA0111-S1) (Personal Computers)

Some other eSATA cables don't work with TiVo Series 3 machines because their connectors are too fat and stubby to fit the TiVo's recessed eSATA socket. This SIIG cable fits the TiVo perfectly - I used it to add a Seagate external drive to my Series 3 with no problems.