Solved! Looking to add esata and/or usb3 to laptop help..

coldengrey

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I have a dell inspiron 1520 and it has an express card slot - I don't know anything about the add-on capabilities/limitations of express card slot...


What I'd like to do is (building new desktop pc) Hot swap a 3.5" internal hard drive between the desktop and laptop for back ups...
Desktop case I'm looking at has an angled hot swap bay on top of case.
Don't care for using USB portable hdd anymore for backups - accedentally disconnected and lost everything from corrruption...

Can I add on sata/esata/usb 3.0 to express card slot for use w/ 3.5" internal hard drive?

Are there add-ons that might have a Sata/esata and usb 3.0?
If so, could you guys throw up some links to best products (price/performance for my situation)?

Also, what are the typical transfer speeds and/or bottlenecks (limited by my laptops hardware capabilities)
of the different connection types?

THANKS for sharing time and knowledge,
jason
 
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hpfreak

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