whiteatom Posted March 22, 2020 Share Posted March 22, 2020 Hi all, I'm wondering if anyone has found a good eSata/Sata connected hard drive dock? My case is full, and I am slowly upgrading drives. It would be very nice to have an external dock so I can pre-clear drives ahead of time. I have a USB one, but it was pre-reading at 25mb/sec and it was I realized it's far too slow for pre-clearing large drives. What I'd like to do is glue a drive dock to the top of my case and just run a Sata cable down through a small hole. I could also use an eSATA dock with a port converter card. I guess I could also just get a USB 3 card and do it that way. Does anyone have any experience with something suitable that you could recommend? Quote Link to comment
klipp01 Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00U8KSLA8/ref=cm_sw_r_other_apa_i_cDaEEbXV9PGTJSent from my Pixel 2 XL using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted March 23, 2020 Share Posted March 23, 2020 2 hours ago, whiteatom said: I guess I could also just get a USB 3 card and do it that way. You definitely don't want to do that for a drive in the array or cache pool. It might or might not work well for preclearing and as Unassigned Device, but often USB won't pass the SMART information so maybe not. I've been using this for Unassigned Devices for years: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B076M3ZLKF/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_I4aEEbRXE1VZ7 Along with this: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000GX4C7I/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_y3aEEb8P4103D Quote Link to comment
whiteatom Posted March 23, 2020 Author Share Posted March 23, 2020 I'm just looking for a pre-clear "slot", so the external should be OK. This eSATA plate with a SATA cable is exactly what I think I'm going to do. Thanks for the input! Quote Link to comment
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