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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1541218"><p>eSATA is another interface for hard drives. You are correct that your iMac does not have one. eSATA is typically used for internal connections for hard drives, but some manufactures put them on the outside too, just in case a user wants to connect a bare drive (no enclosure) for some reason. Personally I never saw any use for it.</p><p></p><p>I have two FW800 drives daisy chained and it works very well. In my case they are daisy chained off an external monitor that has a FireWire port on it and that connects to my MBP by ThunderBolt. I use one for external storage and the other is a backup to my internal drives.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1541218"] eSATA is another interface for hard drives. You are correct that your iMac does not have one. eSATA is typically used for internal connections for hard drives, but some manufactures put them on the outside too, just in case a user wants to connect a bare drive (no enclosure) for some reason. Personally I never saw any use for it. I have two FW800 drives daisy chained and it works very well. In my case they are daisy chained off an external monitor that has a FireWire port on it and that connects to my MBP by ThunderBolt. I use one for external storage and the other is a backup to my internal drives. [/QUOTE]
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