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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.8 x 1.5 inches ; 1.6 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B000VS2IHE
• Item model number: CBESATA2
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #36,843 in Electronics (See Bestsellers in Electronics)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 7, 2007

Product Description

Product Description

This 2 port eSATA CardBus Adapter offers a cost-effective external storage solution that allows notebook users to experience the high performance capability of external Serial ATA. Ideal for making routine backups or dumping data to external hard drives, the eSATA CardBus Adapter presents a convenient way to protect your valuable data, with full external SATA data transfer speeds of up to 150MBps.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars StarTech eSATA Cardbus Adapter, February 8, 2008

By	R. D. Hoestenbach, Jr. - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I needed an eSATA Cardbus adapter to use my wifes seagate external driveon her new laptop. She uses the drive to store CAD and other large graphic design files that take forever to transfer using USB. Tried to see what I had access to locally and most of the young cybergeeks didn't know what eSATA was, so I went out on-line and found this one. It looked to be what I needed. It loaded easy, no problem with recognition or driver install, and it appears as fast or faster than the on-board hard drive. Now if I can just get the Seagate software to work as well.

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars No better than Firewire or USB 2.0, April 21, 2008

By	Jeff C (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

I have a Seagate external HDD that can accommodate USB, Firewire or eSata. I was really interested in trying the eSata interface due to the theoretical 3Gb/s transfer rate. I ran some real world tests after receiving this device and found that USB, Firewire and eSata are all about the same - 240Mb/s (30MB/s) under real world conditions. I knew that Firewire and USB 2.0 were about the same (theoretical 400Mb/s vs. 480Bb/s burst, respectively) with Firewire having the slight edge on sustained transfer. What I did not consider was that the Cardbus is the gating factor with a theoretical burst transfer rate between 33MB/s and 132MB/s depending upon the transfer type.

In summary, you will not get better transfer rates between your external device and your laptop using this device instead of USB 2.0 or Firewire.

Finally, my computer started freezing up for a few seconds at a time on the same day that I installed the drivers for this device. This may have been coincidental but I am not taking any more chances when there is no upside.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars great product, March 29, 2008

By	John W. Dickason "Music man" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This card works perfectly with my external sata hard drive. The only thing is that the computer won't recognize it if it's just woken up from hibernation. You have to shut down and start up from scratch every time. Otherwise there have been no problems and saving large files is very quick.