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 ...

Back in January 2008, the SATA-IO team announced that they were working on a Power Over eSATA initiative that would enable eSATA devices to be powered without the need for an external power source, ...

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, ...

LaCie says the eSATA Hub is now on sale at its store. The device connects two eSATA drives to a Thunderbolt port. LaCie says the eSATA Hub is now on sale at its store. The device connects two eSATA ...

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 ...

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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 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 ...

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 ...