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fgf80
11-02-11, 07:56 PM
This is a short one:

You know how most card readers with SATA are USB2.0? well, I was looking for one with actual SATA. Any ideas?
HankB
11-02-11, 10:20 PM
like this? (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820223113)
fgf80
11-03-11, 06:19 PM
like this? (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820223113)

<p>No. like <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820223117">this</a>, but with actual SATA instead of USB2.0 (a SATA slot, instead of a Sata-adapted USB slot</p>
HankB
11-03-11, 10:28 PM
You mean a slot for a drive? The one I linked has a cable that plugs into a SATA port on the motherboard and provides an eSATA port on the front panel (in addition to USB ports which have no connection to the SATA port except sharing the same housing.) One is useful if you have a bare 2.5" drive and the other if you have an external drive that supports eSATA.
fgf80
11-04-11, 05:09 PM
You mean a slot for a drive? [...] One is useful if you have a bare 2.5" drive.

I have two bare 2.5in drives (from two separate laptops, one whose file system crashed but the HDD remained usable, and the other where it was on max settings and still the BIOS was slow). One has been pre-loaded with Linux Mint (or ubuntu; I don't have it with me, and I forget) and the other still had Widows 7 x64 Ult. on it. The problem being you can't run Win7 from USB. However, a 2.5in slot is more convenient and safe (I can't tell you how many times I've tried to run Linux off an external hard drive and it's fallen off the desk).

Why am I sensing I'll probably have to build one?
noxqzs
11-04-11, 05:24 PM
What you are looking for is called a Hot Swap Rack (http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007599%204093&IsNodeId=1&name=%2410%20-%20%2425)

I use This (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817990001)