StarTech ECESATUSB1 1 Port ExpressCard Power eSATA Controller Adapter Card

Pros: Worked fine right out of the nice Startech box, came with driver mini disc, i didnt even need to use the driver disc. It was recognized instantly as said and showed my WD250blue in Vantec encloseure(see my commen there) on my Acer Aspire (Pentum Dual T3400, 4 gig Sumsung ram, new WD 250 Black 7200rpm spinnin info).Does what it supose to, no speed test yet, But faster than usb2 4sho.

Cons: Wish i would a bought this sooner.

Overall Review: Neweggg shipping and packagin was fine, this one eggsaver 4 - 7 day came in 4 days in my mailbox. Bubblewrap fine and well.

Pros: No Pros Yet

Cons: This card does not work on my 17" MacBook Pro, OS X 10.6.4 (Snow Leopard). After installing the most recent StarTech driver, which the System Profiler recognized as being installed, I inserted the ExpressCard. With nothing yet attached to the card, the first kernel panic occurred within the first five minutes. A second kernel panic occurred several days later, again with nothing yet attached. After receiving my Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Pro (7200rpm, 750GB), I used the card to initialize and partition the drive with the Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format one partition to be used with Time Machine. On two occasions, after fresh initializations of the drive each time, the Time Machine partition became corrupted. Since I have now used the Seagate drive successfully, for over a month, with Time Machine using the drives supplied USB 2.0 cable and since the first two kernel panics occurred even before a device was attached, I attribute the data corruption to the StarTech card as well.

Overall Review: With deference to Startech's advertising, the 1 Port ExpressCard Power eSATA Controller Adapter Card does not support Snow Leopard. I thought that maybe Alan's previous review indicated that StarTech had upgraded the card but not yet the advertising. I have communicated with StarTech on two occasions now and their Product Management team does not have an ETA as to when the card with support Snow Leopard. My hope is that this review, as others I intend to post, will be the "squeaky wheel that gets oiled". I will post another review with outcomes when that happens.

Pros: It works in on my macbook (snow leopard) and on win7 (32 bit). I have not tested on win7 64 bit, but there are drivers out there that would probably work. I use this card with the Koutech CBL-PSA512V-100 5V/12V Power Over eSATA cable which allow me to plug 2.5" drives directly into my laptop. Also allows a usb device to be plugged in directly to the card and via various powered esata cables you can find on here.

Cons: Card sticks out of my macbook about 1/4" before the black plastic housing and about 1.5" in total, not a huge deal, but you will want to unplug it before putting your laptop in the bag. The card will NOT power 3.5" desktop drives, for those you will still need to provide external power.

Overall Review: My first powered esata card. Works fine.