[ale] OT. Dead harddrive on laptop

[Robert]

>On 01/24/2012 11:30 AM, Cornelis van Dijk wrote:
>If you want an external, fast drive, use eSATA. eSATA connections are exactly
>the same performance as internal SATA connections. It has the same instruction
>set. This is what the HDD data recovery and forensics guys use. eSATA docks are
>cheap - like $20 cheap.

One issue I've had with cheap docks (and enclosures), which usually combine
eSATA and usb, is that they don't properly pass-through SMART data. The better
docks not only pass SMART when connected via eSATA, but work over USB too.