E-SATA != SATA !!!!
Nah. They are *exactly* the same.
Evidently someone realized that the original SATA connector is way too
fragile to be regularly used to plug/unplug a cable by hand, so they
engineered in some features which make it a bit more resilient. But
apart from the shape of the connector there is really no difference.
(Well, in the old days of SATAI not many chipsets supported hotplug;
often boards came with a couple of eSATA ports wired to a separate chip
with hotplug support. But on virtually all new boards all ports support
hotplug).
andrea
