Review on 🔌 StarTech.com 3 ft Shielded External eSATA Cable - Serial ATA 150 - eSATA (M) to eSATA (M) - Black (ESATA3) by Niranjan Reynolds

It worked great while it worked and gave me blazing fast transfer speeds compared to USB 2.0. I'm not sure what happened, but after a few uses and puffs, the cable died. eSATA is expected to be capable of more than 5000 insertions and removals. It took me a month to debug my external hard drive and eSATA card when I finally found that the eSATA cable was defective. Replaced the cable with a new one and everything works again. You win something, you lose something. Not sure if I got a random lemon or if the connector build quality is just poor; I don't see any obvious damage. Pros: Good length, more than enough to reach a computer tower on the floor and an external hard drive on a table. The cable appeared to be quite strong and thick and there is still no sign of damage. wear or damage. Cheap Cons: Died after only a dozen or so insertions and deletions. (Could be a poor quality connector.) Cheap *upgrade* I ended up getting a SIIG CB-SA0111-S1 3.3ft external Serial ATA cable as a replacement, everything works fine now.