I have got an old GRaid 2 TB drive, it holds 2 FW800 ports, 1 usb2.0 and 1 e Sata 2 port, I am going to use it soon on a computer with only USB3 ports, I thought to connect the E sata port to usb3 via an adapter, has anyone used something reliable?
https://www.amazon.com/G-Technology-G-RAID-Dual-External-Drive/dp/B002Q887BS?th= 1
I have used one USB3 to e-Sata adapter in the past and it worked fine, but I can't check now what brand it was (maybe Newertech?).
In any case, it should easily be faster than any of the older connections.
FW800 or USB2 were a bottleneck, severely limiting the usefulness of the RAID. With e-SATA you should see much better throughput.
No, because that eSATA output will only go out as fast as eSATA is capable of. I use a FW800 drive with a T'bolt adapter. It only gives me FW800 speed, because that's the port (and throughput limit) on the drive's port itself.
I am sorry, i intended if i use the data 2 output compared to fw 800.
does an eSata port to USB3.0 adapter on Graid drive give a real improvement?
