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| Thread ID: 107708 | 2010-02-26 21:40:00 | eSata works but only on boot-up | alisam (4427) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 861900 | 2010-02-28 07:10:00 | Maybe Oct/Nov this year | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 861901 | 2010-02-28 08:08:00 | Maybe Oct/Nov this year Its a bit wierd, some USB 3.0 previews have mentioned no additional software requirement for USB 3.0 devices, so it appears that Windows 7 has native support for USB 3.0... www.hardocp.com But wikipedia say that drivers for Windows 7 are under development (can't rely on wikipedia though) and the Windows 7 article says that USB 3.0 support will come in a patch but the article sited is from November 2008, almost a full year before Windows 7 actually came out, so it is quite concievable that Windows 7 does indeed have native USB 3.0 support... |
Deimos (5715) | ||
| 861902 | 2010-02-28 08:40:00 | I have a P5B-E and several other Asus boards, I have tried several add in cards and what I have found is that eSATA is pretty much useless for hot plugging hard drives no matter what settings you use. For convenience USB (or firewire for that matter) is far superior, I have 2 eSATA devices and eventually gave up on it and switch to the usb port instead, never had probablems again. Yes the speed is slower, however its only about a 50% penalty (for conventional hard drives) and in my opinion it is worth it as you probably waste more time mucking around with eSATA anyway. I did a non scientific test by copying my pictures to the new external hard drive. I copied 6556 files for a total of 19.9gb. USB took 20 minutes eSata took 7 minutes. |
alisam (4427) | ||
| 861903 | 2010-02-28 08:52:00 | Downloaded HotSwap and it definitley works | alisam (4427) | ||
| 861904 | 2010-02-28 08:53:00 | Its a bit weird, some USB 3.0 previews have mentioned no additional software requirement for USB 3.0 devices, so it appears that Windows 7 has native support for USB 3.0... www.hardocp.com But wikipedia say that drivers for Windows 7 are under development (can't rely on wikipedia though) and the Windows 7 article says that USB 3.0 support will come in a patch but the article sited is from November 2008, almost a full year before Windows 7 actually came out, so it is quite conceivable that Windows 7 does indeed have native USB 3.0 support... According to this (news.cnet.com) Microsoft expressed caution about USB 3.0--which is expected to offer 10 times the performance of USB 2.0--because finalization has taken so long. "Because the current USB 3.0 spec is currently not signed off, we're challenged and we won't have support for USB 3.0 in Windows 7 at RTM (release to manufacturing)," Lars Giusti of Microsoft said in a WinHEC session here titled "USB Technology Update and Windows Strategy." If you do a search for Win7 SP1, most sites, say support for USB 3 |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 861905 | 2010-02-28 10:38:00 | According to this (news.cnet.com) snip. Yeah like I said, the article cited is from 2008, check your own link: "November 6, 2008 11:45 AM" almost 1 full year before RTM was available |
Deimos (5715) | ||
| 861906 | 2010-02-28 10:42:00 | I did a non scientific test by copying my pictures to the new external hard drive. I copied 6556 files for a total of 19.9gb. USB took 20 minutes eSata took 7 minutes. Yeah like I said "its only ABOUT a 50% penalty" I still believe time is saved by NOT using eSATA simply because of the lacklustre hotswap, I used to use it for backups, after about 5 hotswaps I would have to reboot the server, rebooting = time wasted because A. backups run overnight so who cares if it takes 3 hours instead of 1.5 and B. spending a few minutes rebooting a server, making sure disks are recognised etc is more time than not having to do those things with USB. |
Deimos (5715) | ||
| 861907 | 2010-02-28 17:39:00 | With my External eSata drive, after I connect the esata cable (computer is already running - Windows 7) I just right click on "computer" select "manage" then highlight "disk management" under Storage and then just go up to "Action" and "rescan disks" this then loads the external drive and away I go. One thing I have found is that if I want to disconnect the drive while the Comp is running I turn off the external drive and then rescan disks before pulling the esata connection. |
Davoid (6918) | ||
| 861908 | 2010-02-28 20:35:00 | With my External eSata drive, after I connect the esata cable (computer is already running - Windows 7) I just right click on "computer" select "manage" then highlight "disk management" under Storage and then just go up to "Action" and "rescan disks" this then loads the external drive and away I go. One thing I have found is that if I want to disconnect the drive while the Comp is running I turn off the external drive and then rescan disks before pulling the esata connection. See... this is my point, thats a lot of clicks and farting around when USB just works, for me convenience is king, and eSATA is not convenient. |
Deimos (5715) | ||
| 861909 | 2010-03-01 03:02:00 | If it is to hard then just create a shortcut to "Disk Management" on your desktop, double click and select "rescan" Of course I am normally copying over a large amount of data as I only connect when I need to backup and that is why I like esata and I don't have to use the "safely remove hardware ....." method. |
Davoid (6918) | ||
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