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Your cart is empty.1.Easily add two external Serial ATA (eSATA) ports to your notebook or desktop for external drive connections 2.Supports data transfer rate up to 3.0Gb/s (300MB/s) 3.Supports Native Command Queuing (NCQ) and SATA TCQ commands 4.Easy plug-n-play installation to your external serial ATA drives 5.Supports SATA hard disk hot-plugging
William
Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2011
use this in my laptop to connect a external HD and works perfectly SIIG makes good stuff and is well supported Definatly recomend
Jim Lewis
Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2010
Am using product with 64-bit Windows 7 and Dell XPS 1340 laptop. Works great with 2 external hard drives. No problems. Highly recommend. (Note Dell laptop itself has some driver issues under 64-bit Windows 7 - had to revert to A00 nVidia MCP79 chipset driver (64-bit Vista).
Kevin Underriner
Reviewed in the United States on September 19, 2009
This eSATA card works reliably with no functional issues on a variety of laptops and OS's (Dell, HP, Vista, Windows 7). Drivers were easy to find and install. It has never failed to operate as expected. This makes it very easy to add a couple of TBs of fast external drives.The only negative is the cabling. All of the eSATA cables I know of are fairly rigid which limits the physical placement of the external drives and results in strain on the connectors which sometimes causes them to disconnect.
TooManyHobbies
Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2009
This card has worked well for me. Very fast with eSATA drives. I connect three external Western Digital 750 Gig hard drives to it (two at at time of course). The only other thing I would like is the ability to boot from the external SATA drives. This card does not support booting from the connected drives, or at least I have been unable to find a way; even after searching the web for a while.
David Alegria
Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2009
It seems to work, but I have not yet confirmed how fast it is. It seems to be very easy to have it accidentally pop out of my brand new, "HP Pavilion dv6t-2000 CTO Entertainment Notebook PC." It also seems to have "play" sideways and does not seem secure. This is my first ExpressCard 54 device, but I was told that the narrower ExpressCard 34 are much worse. This may not be SIIG or HP's fault at all, but just a stupid industry wide specification for ExpressCard.Also the drive did not work AT ALL on Win7 Pro 64bit when I used the then recommended 1.0.14.1 driver. I called SIIG support and they eventually emailed me a link to use the 1.0.15.0 driver, but absolutely no "how to do install it" info. I have been computing for many years and tried several of the 'normal ways' before I got it to work. (Sorry, but that was 12 days ago and I don't recall how I finally did it. My mistake.)Summary. It works, but not ready for Prime Time.
Mark J. Minasi
Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2008
Perhaps it's because I'm running Vista 64, but SIIG CLAIMs they support that OS... and this product just doesn't, not very well.I have five external drives with e-SATA interfaces, and only two work with this board. Additionally, it's sort of "tempermental," and I often have to unplug and replug the e-SATA cable into it several times before my system recognizes a drive. (The Nexstar 3 2.5" enclosure seems the most reliable e-SATA enclosure in my experience -- the Coolgear enclosure runs well on its USB interface but not the e-SATA interface.)Worse yet, there is no way to safely remove this device. No matter how I tell Vista to let me remove the e-SATA adapter and no matter how many times Vista gives me the all-clear, yanking out this adapter is a guaranteed blue screen.I hate writing negative reviews, but if you want to use this, then be prepared to try a LOT of e-SATA cables, a lot of e-SATA enclosures, and then, once you've got a combination that works, then Just. Don't. Touch. It. And pray that it continues to work.
R. Scott
Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2007
After downloading the latest drivers from the manufacturer's website, the SIIG Esata II Expresscard works fine. I have two 750GB Seagate Freestyle eSata external drives hooked up to my HP laptop for storing my music files (I rip everything in .wav). The improvement in speed when browsing my files in Windows Media Player is much improved. The screen would stutter noticeably when scrolling through files on my USB2.0 external drive, but scrolling is much smoother with the eSata drives. I hope eSata ports are standard when I purchase my next laptop.
Zurcher
Reviewed in the United States on August 30, 2007
I have been using this card for about a year with aSeagate 7200.10 320Gb SATA hard drive, in an AZIO Corp. external eSATA enclosure, and it has worked great for me.This card greatly decreased wait time for me while video editing.Also, I recently added another hard drive (same setup), and the card handles two at a time just great.I have also used this card to run a DVD burner in eSATA, and it worked wonderfully as well.All in all, there are not many cards out that do what this card does, and this card does its job well.
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