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eSATA wire

I bought the WD hard drive that the website said would work with the Motorola QIP 7216. It did not come with an eSATA wire. I tried Best Buy, Radio Shack and a few other stores stores but no one carries it and I even went to the Verizon fios store several miles away. Does anyone know where I can get this wire?

Thanks for any help!

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lasagna

A quick search of Amazon will yield a multitude of possibilities ...

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=esata+cable

Even if you could find it at a local retailer, you wouldn't want to buy it from them. They'll easily charge you 10 times as much as what you should pay.

Hellenww

Thanks!

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I'm surprised it didn't come tih an eSATA cable. The one I purchased over a year ago did.

My preferred source for cables is monoprice.com. Low prices and good quaility on all cables I have ordered (CAT-5, USB, HDMI, and many others). Just another possible source.

lasagna

Actually, a lot of these disks come with a dual interface nowadays ... USB and eSATA ... and the cable they ship with the drive is usually the more universally accepted USB one. That's what happened to me when I bought my expansion drive.

I usually prefer monoprice.com as well for my cabling needs ... but if I recall correct they either didn't have them or for some reason wanted substantially more than other sources (admittedly an oddity given their usual comptetive prices).

Keyboards

Just checked Monoprice with a search for eSATA. Here is the link (prices look mighty low to me - $1.29 unshielded, $2.84 shielded for a 3 foot):

http://www.monoprice.com/products/search.asp?keyword=esata&x=0&y=0

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