can any external drive that support eSATA be used instead? can any external drive that support eSATA be used instead?
1143836
Tivo 3 should support just about any eSATA drive Tivo HD will only support the WD DVR Expander out of the box. They can be hacked to use any drive, but it voids the warranty. There is supposedly a file limitation with Tivos that doesn't allow them to read more than about 1.2TB of space. Whether this will be updated is unknown. The SA 8300HD supports regular eSATA drives, but there are some models that just don't work.
979930
Nope!! Have to purchase one, I believe it came with a USB, but not eSATA. That would have been nice
874208
If you want to use it as an external drive, you can get an enclosure for it. Here's an example of what I mean:http://www.amazon.com/ORICO-2588US3-External-Enclosure-Support/dp/B00FYKRI9M/
1097372
Actually, it did not work for my purpose. My PC fried and I tried to restore files to a new box (USB 3.0 interfaces) from an eSATA external drive. Did not even register. FYI: I then tried a "Newertech" eSATA to USB 3 connector pod (pn NWTADESATA6USB3 -- Barcode: 1309000527) from "Otherworld computing". It worked. I wish you luck
1956221
There's nothing OS-specific about the enclosure, anything with eSATA "port multiplier" support should work fine.
451562
eSATA just means "external"SATA. Any SATA hard drive can be connected to an enclosure that has an eSATA connector on the outside of the enclosure. It could even be a solid state drive except they don't make 3.5 inch solid state drives!
761377
I have not tried it as the ESATA had a different number of pins. My neighbor said to plug I. All three connectors. The ESATA port on the back of my gadget, the USB port in front of my gadget and the other USB into the external hard drive I was trying to set up.
451564
I've been working with computers for a long time (currently a Network Admin), with that said, motor rpm speed has nothing to do with interface type. eSATA is simply external SATA; so if a 5400 rpm drive will work with normal SATA (which it does-however 5400 won't saturate anything more than SATA II), you will be totally fine.
546404
It is probable that the eSata must use the onboard SATA port only. Meaning, it is only a through port for the SATA on your motherboard. Try connecting a SATA cable from the motherboard to the SATA connector on the top of the card.
1725679
Cool, different OS or OS that only supports FAT32 is one of those applications. I looked it up and the limitation in W7+ is you can only format partitions up to 32GB as FAT32 the easiest way to get around that is some free partitioning software. I use gparted Live CD because I know it's not bundled with Potentially Unwanted Programs (PUPs) but there are a lot of other options. If you want to see the disks as separate (JBOD) that works best with USB with eSATA you may need a SATA controller that supports port multiplier.
1678777
if you mean that you are working with less than 8 drives, yes, you can add other drives, one at a time (the system will do a rebuild of the array when you effectively add the new drive). Beyond 8 drives, you can only add other drives with the expansion unit. That means the USB and esata interfaces cannot be used for drives that are meant to be part of a RAID array. External drives (through usb and esata) can only be shared on their own, as individual volumes. And yes, all raid options are supposed to work with any number of drives. I started my array with 6 and soon went to add a 7th drive.
1363894
Well, I do not know as it seems pretty neatly closed, but there is always the alternative to use an external and/or network accessible drives. That's what I do over a Gigabit network. Good luck.
1673636
I installed an internal 3tb drive with no problems, all 3 tb useable. Firmware Version 1.0.1.52 will support 4tb external, but I'm not sure about internal. I would think it would.
172340
I believe that only an eSata drive can be added to expand storage, in a RAID 0 configuration. What the limit is on that doesn't seem to be documented anywhere, but I'd assume at least 1TB. I haven't found any size limit for USB drives either, but since you can only copy to/from or backup/restore using USB drives that makes a huge drive of limited value anyway. I suspect the only way we'll know is to remove the internal drive, attach it to a PC, and see what filesystem the Mediashare uses. Sorry, wish I had a more helpful answer.
2097303
Simple answer: NO. Usb 2 and 3 although backward compatible (not forward) are differently made (wired) with USB having substantially different wiring configurations as to preclude a USB 2 connection to be upgradable to USB 3. But, you may find that using an "eSATA connector will be even better (if such a connector exists on the external drive housing) that exceeds what a USB 3.0 connector could do anyway. Having said all that, if you are only using the external drive for backup purposes a USB 2.0 connection would work just fine anyway. Good luck!
1508772
I don't understand your question. Are you saying that you lost the instructions for the Rosewill external drive? If you have placed the hard drive into the enclosure correctly and Windows 7 is not recognizing the drive then I ask "How is the drive connected to your machine"? If it is eSATA then I know that some motherboards seem to have a problem. The best solution is to use USB and there should be no complications. Please clarify!
874206
If you want to use it as an external drive, you can get an enclosure for it. Here's an example of what I mean: http://www.amazon.com/ORICO-2588US3-External-Enclosure-Support/dp/B00FYKRI9M/