A technician is assembling a custom workstation that requires high-speed external storage with an existing 3.5-inch hard disk drive. The technician has decided to leverage the existing eSATA interface on the workstation's motherboard. Which type of cabling option should the technician choose to connect the drive to the workstation allowing the best performance of the interface?
An eSATA cable designed for external connection of the drive
A Cat 6 network cable connected to a capable NAS system
A USB 3.0 to SATA adapter cable for versatile connectivity
A standard SATA cable usually used within the computer case
The technician should use an eSATA cable, which is specifically designed to connect external SATA hard drives to an eSATA port on a computer motherboard or an eSATA PCIe card. eSATA cables are made to handle the external transfer speeds of SATA devices, which in this case is necessary for utilizing the high-speed data transfer capabilities of the existing interface on the workstation's motherboard efficiently. Other interfaces like USB or Ethernet are either not meant for direct hard drive connectivity or would significantly limit the transfer speed of the eSATA interface.
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