Originally wanted the Lacie eSata2 drive, but it seems it's not on their australian store, and the us store requires a US address...

Anyone know where i can get an eSata2 drive for a reasonable price? (Some websites display $300 still, while lacie's site is under $200).

Looking for 500gigs at least.

I retail a vast variety of external / internal Drives / RAID Arrays etc - many having eSATA I/O, yet not eSATA2, as far as I can see through the data base.

I'll contact my suppliers today and find out what's happening in the Australian market, and if or when such Enclosures will be available.

cheers,

cw

(the biggest problem I found with LaCie, is their rather limited Warranties - so all good, fine and cheap, yet retrieving a flaked External Drive both during the warranty period, and after, took quite an eternity. One can only assume, the price is based on that very limited warranty... if you see what I mean).

I have sold quite a few La Cie drives with only one failure during warranty; it was returned fairly quickly by La Cie (the customer said that he could not find the packaging so I spent several hours making sure the drive was well-packed -- La Cie will not honour warranty if the packaging is deficient in their view).

However, when a FireWire burner failed just out of warranty (power supply or bridge board), they would not sell me a case as a spare part. Thought this was pretty shitty.

These days I'd rather sell a case and drive separately as the customer gets a longer warranty on the drive.

Had a look around but couldn't find eSATA2 either.

Ah - I appear to have come to a very interesting conclusion... this being that eSATA2 does not... exist! There'll also be an eSATA3 terminology in use, and it too will mean... nothing

I have to nick off to a job, but I'll leave you guys with this - Dispelling the SATA II confusion:

http://www.sata-io.org/namingguidelines.asp

and again in Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SATA_2

Read just under Sub Heading: SATA II Misnomer

cheers,

cw

Thanks, Clockwork; useful research!

So what's capable of the 3gig/s speeds? I have a Express/32 card for my MBP that allows the use of a 1.5gig and 3.0 gig speed eSata's, i'm currently using the 1.5gig one for one of my Externals, but would like to use the other for a faster drive...


http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm?pid=10811

Is eSata2 is it not? If not where can i find a eSata external capable of 3.0gig/s speeds?

Apparently not.

Nicked off Wikipedia:

SATA II Misnomer

The 3.0 Gbit/s specification has been very widely referred to as “Serial ATA II” (“SATA II”), contrary to the wishes of the Serial ATA standards organization that authored it. The official website notes that SATA II was in fact that organization's name at the time, the SATA 3.0 Gbit/s specification being only one of many that the former SATA II defined, and suggests that “SATA 3.0 Gbit/s” be used instead.

(The Serial ATA standards organization has since changed names, and is now “The Serial ATA International Organization”, abbreviated SATA-IO.)