I've been doing a LOT of testing on this server (T110) recently and one thing I discovered is that if you have SATA ports set to AHCI in BIOS, the eSATA port's performance is AWFUL. Changing the SATA settings to "SATA" in the BIOS seems to triple the performance. The only problem with that setting is that you will probably lose your hot swap capability.
Dell has TERRIBLE support for eSATA. I cannot find a single eSATA PCIe board that will work in either T110 or T310 server. Google searching seems to indicate that nobody has a solution. For now I'm giving up and going to USB 3.0, but the performance isn't nearly as good as it should be.
Found this thread via Google and it put me off trying the eSATA port in the T110 II. However I am pleased to report that it works just fine!
For me (with a 1m eSATA to internal SATA cable routed back into the case) it operates at full SATA II speed with AHCI. This is with the 5 internal SATA ports also populated. No issues at all.
Larry Bates
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October 10th, 2011 15:00
I've been doing a LOT of testing on this server (T110) recently and one thing I discovered is that if you have SATA ports set to AHCI in BIOS, the eSATA port's performance is AWFUL. Changing the SATA settings to "SATA" in the BIOS seems to triple the performance. The only problem with that setting is that you will probably lose your hot swap capability.
Dell has TERRIBLE support for eSATA. I cannot find a single eSATA PCIe board that will work in either T110 or T310 server. Google searching seems to indicate that nobody has a solution. For now I'm giving up and going to USB 3.0, but the performance isn't nearly as good as it should be.
Hope information helps,
Larry Bates
GMIC
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October 12th, 2011 04:00
Thanks for information,
but according to Dell support there is no way to solve this issue when using SRV2003... So I use my HDD on USB2.
BTW I will remember your advice to use USB3 in place of eSATA in the future.
Best regards,
Gilles
Kiririn
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August 10th, 2022 12:00
Found this thread via Google and it put me off trying the eSATA port in the T110 II. However I am pleased to report that it works just fine!
For me (with a 1m eSATA to internal SATA cable routed back into the case) it operates at full SATA II speed with AHCI. This is with the 5 internal SATA ports also populated. No issues at all.