StarTech 6-Feet Shielded External eSATA Cable M/M (ESATA6)

by StarTech

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 4.9 x 0.6 x 8.7 inches ; 4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000ENYXZ6
• Item model number: ESATA6
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (71 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #2 in Electronics > Accessories & Supplies > Cables > Computer > Serial Cables
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 21, 2006

Product Description

This shielded eSATA cable offers a high quality 6ft connection between a desktop or laptop computer and external SATA storage devices, allowing you to "externalize" the impressive capabilities offered by Serial ATA.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

45 of 51 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excelent performance and speed, October 25, 2007

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Colotordoc "RAM" - See all my reviews

This review is from: StarTech 6-Feet Shielded External eSATA Cable M/M (ESATA6) (Personal Computers)

This cable is very easy to conect, brings inmediate speed boost vs standard SATA1 cables or USB - Firewire interfaces. In one word: FAST!!!

Some facts:
If you have an IDE or SATA1 Hard Drive you will not notice the advantages of the speeds reachable with this cable.
To fully appretiate the true potential of a SATA2 or eSATA2 cable you MUST have at least two SATA2 hard drives that run at 3.0Gb/s both.

So if your external drive is SATA2 and your internal drives are SATA1 or IDE you will notice no difference in time transfers as you should with 2 SATA 2 drives.

From my HDD (Seagate SATA1) to a external SATA2 Drive a 4.88GB File was transfered through this eSATA cable in 6 minutes, 42 secs.
Same file through USB 2.0 cable was transferred in 5 minutes, 48 secs.

In other computer same file through 2 SATA2 Hard drives, one internal and one external using this cable, was transferred in 3 minutes, 19 secs.

So, change to SATA2 and wellcome to the almost SCSI speeds world!!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars eSATA Shielded Cable, January 1, 2008

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K. Bellis - See all my reviews
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This review is from: StarTech 6-Feet Shielded External eSATA Cable M/M (ESATA6) (Personal Computers)

So far so good. Have connected two external eSATA drives side-by-side using 6 ft. external shielded eSATA cables and they're working great. I use them for DV standard video capture and editing and have had no problems with data throughput.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nothing speciall.. just good quility eSATA cable, June 13, 2007

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Nima S. Panahi (Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: StarTech 6-Feet Shielded External eSATA Cable M/M (ESATA6) (Personal Computers)

If you need eSATA cable then do get this one as it is a higher quility than those that come with some enclosures or devices. Other than that, nothing special