Can anyone tell me what this is?

[d00m1ord]

I found this expansion card when clearing out my dads office and i have no idea what it is. The board itself has no ports on the back of it but it has a seperate part with 2 ports that look like sata but dont fit a sata cable and those ports are connected to the main board by sata cable 

 

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Please help im really curious as to what it is and what it does

[NelizMastr]

This is a SATA card with a breakout bracket to 2x eSATA, which is External SATA. This was pretty popular a few years ago (like 2007-2012) until USB3 came out and became mainstream, as that offered more bandwidth than the typical SATA 2.0 link used by eSATA.

[d00m1ord]

1 minute ago, NelizMastr said:

This is a SATA card with a breakout bracket to 2x eSATA, which is External SATA. This was pretty popular a few years ago until USB3 came out, as that offered more bandwidth than the typical SATA 2.0 link used by eSATA.

So its basically a card for old external drives?

[NelizMastr]

1 minute ago, d00m1ord said:

So its basically a card for old external drives?

Old enclosures, yes, as eSATA was primarily used to connect external harddrives. You can still get eSATA enclosures and use a harddisk in there to connect to a card like this. eSATA is fast enough for any harddrive, USB3 is better suited to SSDs.

[d00m1ord]

Just now, NelizMastr said:

Old enclosures, yes, as eSATA was primarily used to connect external harddrives. You can still get eSATA enclosures and use a harddisk in there to connect to a card like this. eSATA is fast enough for any harddrive, USB3 is better suited to SSDs.

Ok many thanks it was driving me crazy thanks for helping