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Portable Passport drive w Esata

alansweeney100 · 2011-01-14 14:21:35

I have a new laptop for work, Dell Latitude E6410, which includes a esata port. I need a portable harddrive 500GB+ (preferably passport drive size) but can only find these small drives with usb 2.0 which I find painfully slow. Really don't want to have to use one of these passport usb 2.0 drives with my esata port going to…

14-01-2011 2:21pm

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alansweeney100

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I have a new laptop for work, Dell Latitude E6410, which includes a esata port.
I need a portable harddrive 500GB+ (preferably passport drive size) but can only find these small drives with usb 2.0 which I find painfully slow. Really don't want to have to use one of these passport usb 2.0 drives with my esata port going to waste.
Does anyone know of a small portable drive with a esata port? or a way around this problem...

Al

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#2 14-01-2011 2:24pm

plonk

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I just bought one of these to utilise mine.

http://www.dabs.ie/products/startech-com-esata-usb-to-sata-external-hdd-dock-for-2-5-or-3-5in-68G6.html

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#3 14-01-2011 5:18pm

BostonB

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Out of curiosity what are you doing that you need to copy lots of data that often, that speed is an issue. Problem with esata is you'll need external power and most other machines won't have it. So it kinda defeats the advantages of a usb powered portable drive.

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