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SDMFer
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_ 		4. May 2010 @ 20:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Hey guys, I have a WD mybook home 1.5TB external drive. Have had no problems with it at all except for the stupid esata connection.

PC is win7 i5750 etc that I built.

The problem im having is the esata connection keeps crapping out (or so it appears). I had to trim back the connector jacket so it fit properly, and it now does. Connections are nice and tight, leaving me to believe it cant be a connection issue.

Anyone here have any thoughts on this? This is pissing me right off now. Im trying to transfer 4GB files to the drive and a couple work fine then the next one terminates at somepoint during the transfer. Reboot of the drive is the only way to restore the connection (temporarily).
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KillerBug
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_ 		5. May 2010 @ 02:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
It is probably the WD controller in the external drive. ESATA is just SATA with a different connector, so it is very reliable (when done right), far more reliable & fast than USB 2.0. However, WD (and most others) makes their external drives with adapters for ESATA...so it goes SATA>adapter>sata instead of just SATA>SATA, This causes lots of problems.

You might try bypassing the circuit board and just connecting the drive direct to the esata port by using a esata-to-sata adapter cable.
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