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pkh
13 years agoModerator
eSata would be better because there no protocol conversion between the SATA bus and the eSATA device, whereas there is a conversion with the USB device. This conversion takes CPU cycles that is why Firewire performs better than USB. The only drawback with eSATA is that the orginal eSATA specs do not specify any power long the eSATA cable. You have to have an external power source. This is now changed and now eSATAp allows power over the eSATA cable.
To implement eSATA, you don't need to install a card. All you need is spare SATA ports on your motherboard and then you buy eSATA ports which are just sockets mounted on a strip of metal which you can mount on your chassis.