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miogpsrocks
May 21, 2015Tutor
Seatools failing everything connected to USB docking station
The first 2 drives I tested from my readynas(with boot issues) resulted in saying that both drives had failed the short test. I thought I was in trouble then I tested it with an older version of the s...
BaJohn
May 23, 2015Virtuoso
What about an external eSATA, which my PC has in addition to the USB 2 and 3?
mdgm wrote: Yes. For diagnostics it is best to use an internal SATA port in the PC.
These external eSATA ports (2 of 'em) are 'yellow' and I believe technically are superior to the USB ports.
Just to be clear, is it ANY external ports that you 'object to' (presumable because of controllers), or just USB controllers (and then only some)?
Apologies about 'labouring' the point(s) as I am trying and failing to provide questions which get an answer that satisfies my quest to fully understand the problem(s).
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