[kwlug-disc] Linux-compatible eSATA expansion cards

Darcy Casselman dscassel at gmail.com
Mon Jun 30 23:43:58 EDT 2014


www.canadacomputers.com/index.php?cPath=15_213

Canada Computers has 4 eSATA external drives in their catalogue, versus 130
USB 3.0 ones.

Darcy.


On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 11:05 PM, Khalid Baheyeldin <kb at 2bits.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Darcy Casselman <dscassel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I was gonna say... eSATA seems to be declining in favour of USB3.0.
>> Especially if you're talking about 3+TB drives.
>>
>
> I am running eSATA successfully with a 3TB disk in a dock. What am I
> missing?
>
> Also, will USB 3.0 solve the high CPU usage?
>
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