Without question eSATA is a superior way to connect external storage devices to a PC when compared to USB or even FireWire. eSATA is basically a fancy term used to say external SATA interface, the ...

When USB 3.0 is expected to hit the market in early 2010, it will have been 10 years since the now ubiquitous USB 2.0 was introduced (April 2000). The current USB 2.0 specification runs at a ...

We've just been sent a rather interesting picture from a Taiwanese motherboard maker. After MSI announced its first motherboards with Power Over eSATA recently, we just had to get a look at one of the ...

Most hardware manufacturers are finally rolling out USB 3.0 devices. We’ve seen motherboards, hubs, hard drives, and notebooks all rocking the new and improved USB standard. It’s clearly the future of ...

Kathy Anton wants access to faster, eSATA external hard drives. But her PC, like most of them, lacks an eSATA port. eSATA, the external variation of the standard SATA internal hard drive interface, ...

I wanted to try to speed up some imaging and backup tasks by booting Macrium Reflect Rescue CD (Linux-based version) and imaging some PCs directly to the Synology via eSATA. After booting the Rescue ...

In this great hardware industry, it’s not uncommon to see standards upgraded time and time again. DDR1 to DDR2, ISA to PCI to AGP to PCI-E, Socket 7 to Socket 775, et cetera. This means constant ...

I just got a brand new laptop that happens to have an eSATA port. I went looking for a new external portable drive that uses eSATA and found that the various disk ...

Apple and storage vendors haven't made the use of eSATA easy on the MacBook Pro line. The first rounds of adapter cards had driver and booting issues that confused users and broke with successive OS ...

Unfortunately, hard drives, like nature, abhor a vacuum. They fill up with music, recorded televisions, videos, pictures from your Aunt Gloria’s wedding, anything and almost everything from the ...

A combo port that connects to external SATA (eSATA) drives and USB devices with cables up to two meters long. The eSATA USB Hybrid Port (EUHP) also eliminates the external power cable by supplying 5 ...

Intel demonstrated a working version of USB 3.0 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week. Here's why it will make eSATA and FireWire obsolete. When USB 3.0 is expected to hit the market ...