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My current 5 bay eSATA drive enclosure died tonight - before I go with what I know (eSATA) I wanted to ask the group if I should consider a USB option. Which might you choose and why?

My current 5 bay eSATA drive enclosure died tonight - before I go with what I know (eSATA) I wanted to ask the group if I should consider a USB option. Which might you choose and why?

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I don't have an external array but when I was using one I preferred eSATA. However, if you can get a proper full-speed USB-C maybe it would be worth it depending on cost?

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The reading I have been doing says the conversion from SATA to USB and back really hurts the performance on USB, but I can't find anyone that's tested past USB3. USB-C may be the differentiator, however I would need to replace the esata card with a USB-C card.

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If you had to get a new controller card just to go for USB-C then I say go with eSATA. USB has a lot more possible issues over eSATA. It will depend on the enclosure, the controller on your system, etc... eSATA should be using at least most of the same IO channels as your internal SATA.

Overall I would expect the eSATA to be more reliable for read/write speeds. I have also ran into some problems with USB being unreliable for long write operations to the point where I had transfers that would just fail after a while.

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Thanks!