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Well, that's about it. An inexpensive cable that has opened the world of fast eSATA hard drives to me. What else is there to say.
It works flawlessly despite the (again, IMHO) design flaws inherent in the eSATA standard. The problem is compounded by the stiffness of these cables, and in my case, the fact that I must use an eSATA ExpressCard adapter that causes the cable to extend an extra 3" from my laptop - making it vulnerable to being jarred or bumped.
When I gleefully purchased my 1TB Fantom G-force Greendrive Esata/usb 2.0 I did what I always do - bought an inexpensive generic cable for it. I've never had a problem with other types of cables when trying to save a few bucks, but I learned the hard way that for eSATA, all cables are NOT created equally.
eSATA offers greatly increased speeds over USB or Firewire. eSATA doesn't appear to snap as securely into place as firewire or USB, and whomever came up with the eSATA standard chose not to add screws or other fasteners to compensate for this.
Learn from my mistake and do NOT waste money on cheap eSATA cables; if they work at all (cheap cable #1 was DoA), you will find the cable doesn't maintain a proper connection and drive access will be intermittent (cheap cable #2), which can be disastrous for data integrity. I suspect a large part of this stems from the overall (IMHO) poor design of eSATA connectors in the first place.
In addition, my setup requires a twist in the relatively inflexible cable to connect to my external hard drive, also adding strain.Since I purchased the SIIG CB-SA0111-S1 3.3-Feet Serial ATA External Cable, I have had zero problems with connectivity. I highly recommend this cable to anyone for their eSATA needs.
Used it to connect a 1T byte external hard drive to a DirecTV HD DVR. Does what it is supposed to do. I now have about 140 hours of HD capacity.
What can I say about a cable - it works well and is well made. I would wish it were a bit more flexible, but no biggie for me.
The SIIG serial cables might be a little more expensive than the generic cables but well worth it. These are also not as flexabile as the cheaper cables, which I now learned the hard way that they should be.The SIIG's have moved at least 20 terabytes these last few months and have yet to find errors after verification.I now also use then to verify if the external HDD has any errors and utility work.Do your self a favor and bypass lower quality cables. I saved a few bucks and lost gigs of data due to coruption and problematic connection issues with lower quality generic cables.Trouble shooting is imposible with bad cabels.Works fine with a 1 TB Western Digital and Segates, as long as the external and SATA HDW has decent BIOS.
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