Esata II Expresscard

List Price: $87.47 Discount Price: $60.24

Features:

• SATA Internal Channels - N/A
• SATA Cable Included - No
• Weight - 0.80 lbs.

Customer Reviews:

works great in linux [Posted on 2007-10-25]
Works flawlessly in Linux with drivers in the mainline kernel. Once the right drivers are in the kernel (I compile my own...not sure whether or not they're in most prebuilt kernels), it just works when you put the card in. I get great transfer speeds with my 750GB Seagate FreeAgent. You need "Silicon Image 3124/3132 SATA support" and PCI-Express HotPlug support enabled (pciehp module). See http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_ExpressCard for details.

Seems to work [Posted on 2007-11-09]
Works on my HP laptop. However, must hold carefully when trying to plug in eSATA external cable. Card needs some kind of friction lock or small cable extender to keep from activating laptop extraction spring and disconnecting card in hot swap mode.

Works great But [Posted on 2007-11-20]
Works great but i bought this model instead of the /34 one because i thought this one would protrude less from the side of the laptop. Far from it, most 90%? of the plastic portion seen in the picture juts out from the side of the laptop, close to 1".

Not terribly reliable under Vista 64 [Posted on 2008-02-06]
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.

Installed easily and worked without errors [Posted on 2008-04-27]
Installed easily and worked without errors

Drive connected to it were not detected at boot time (likely the fault of my BIOS) but ýwere easily detected by Windows (XP SP2)

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