Speed slow eSATA port

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jjhernandez

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Hello,
I have a toshiba laptop with a eSATA port, the port work fine but the speed is the same that a USB 2.0(24Mbps) and i have 2 HardDrive one hitashi(2.5",320Gb) and other toshiba(1Tb), i dont know what happen, i updated the bios too
 
Solution
The speed is about right. You can't match benchmarks when moving a file; your transfer rate is approximately 80% of the maximum transfer rate of the internal drive which is fine. Is disk caching enabled for the internal drive?

To improve performance, you could replace the internal drive by a faster one (7200 RPM) or by a SSD.