eSATA

There’s 10 Drives and 80TB of Storage Hiding Inside This Tower

By now, most of us have made the transition from a bulky desktop computer to a sleek laptop. But Buffalo makes a strong case for making room for a non-descript tower on your desk again with its Thunderbolt 2 DriveStation Ultra that’s filled to the brim with hard drives and storage. Inside the DAS—or direct…

Gadgets Andrew Liszewski Jul 23

Seagate’s New GoFlex Turbo Keeps Your Data in a SafetyNet

The Seagate GoFlex portable hard drive has the amenities you’d expect for its price range. 500GB. USB 3.0. Support for FireWire and eSATA. But what makes it stand out is that it offers full data recovery right out of the box. Seagate calls their Data Recovery Service SafetyNet. It works as the name promises; should…

Tech News Kwame Opam Aug 8

You Can’t Upgrade the Hard Drive in the New iMacs

The new iMacs have the super fast Thunderbolt port and Intel’s latest Sandy Bridge Core processors which makes them, well, pretty awesome. What’s not awesome? Apple has made upgrading the hard drive on the new iMacs damn near impossible. https://gizmodo.com/apples-new-imacs-add-thunderbolt-more-graphics-muscle-5798012 Other World Computing is reporting that “the Apple-branded main hard drive cannot be moved, removed…

Tech News Casey Chan May 12

Add an External eSATA Port to Your New iMac

This is a great modification if you don’t mind having a hole on the bottom of your new 27-inch iMac 2010: Add an eSATA port to attach an external hard drive. Best part: You don’t have to do it yourself. Maybe some fanboys will faint at the sight of that hole in a Jon Ive…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Aug 2

LaCie’s Color-Coded Flat Cables For Sassy Setups

Known for their emphasis on design, LaCie has given a makeover to the tired old computer cable by making it flat and colorful. Now that is a big pile of sassy if I have ever seen it. The LaCie cables are more than just looks however. The flat design makes them easier to coil and…

Tech News Sean Fallon Dec 7

ExpressCard 2.0 Spec Is Out and Promises to Be 10x Faster

The new ExpressCard 2.0 standard launched at Computex, and promised transfer speeds of up to 5 GB/s. The new spec will support adapters for PCIe, eSATA and USB 3.0, among other things. The new ExpressCard 2.0 will work with all existing ExpressCard technology, which can be found in most laptops. The new standard will be…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jun 10

WD My Book Studio Edition II: 4 Terabytes + 4 Interfaces

WD’s My Book Studio Edition II now comes with a pair of 2TB drives and a choice of four interfaces: USB 2.0, eSATA, FireWire 400 and FW800. Having 4TB plus all those options’ll cost you, though: $650 MSRP. [Western Digital]

Tech News Wilson Rothman Jun 9

Iomega eGo Triple-Interface 500GB Drive Drops a Gig In 15 Seconds Flat

Sure it’s shiny, ruby red and super lightweight, holds 500GB and connects—with power—via USB 2.0, FireWire 400 or FireWire 800. But the best thing about the newest Iomega eGo is that it can move files faster than (almost) anything I’ve seen. The only downside I can see some of you noting is that the bus-powered…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Jun 2

Rumor: Dell Adamo to Pack Blu-Ray and eSATA Peripherals

A Google cache at Dell’s site reveals a few details about their upcoming MacBook Air competitor, the Adamo. The leak indicates a few interesting things about Dell’s plan for peripherals, and hints at price. We already knew the Adamo was slated to run significantly cheaper than the expensive Air, and a leak this Thursday suggested…

Tech News Dan Nosowitz Dec 27

OCZ Pushing Out a Line of Crafty, Power-Grubbing eSATA Thumb Drives

The external SATA standard is still a comparatively rare and inconsistent one, but OCZ has designed the Throttle, an eSATA flash drive with a clever compatibility trick up its slee—err, cap. Challenged with a potential userbase made up of two effectively different standards—powered and unpowered eSATA—OCZ found a way to cater to everyone by tacking…

Tech News John Herrman Dec 15

Kanguru’s e-Flash Drive Can Handle USB and eSATA

In recent years, that vast majority of thumbdrive “innovations” have been…well…non-technical. However, Kanguru has actually done something useful by integrating an eSATA plug with a standard USB 2.0 drive. For folks with eSATA capability, that means performance speeds that are several times faster than USB. The drive even comes packaged with an eSATA + Power…

Tech News Sean Fallon Nov 19

Datamore Porté Adds Lambo Doors to Your Hard Drive

Most hard drive enclosures aren’t winning any beauty contests, but at least the Datamore Porté is putting on some lipstick, tightening the girdle and giving it her all. This USB or eSATA enclosure for SATA drives features that moving while standing still look along with a hot rear gull-wing door. Bonus shot: Unfortunately, the Datamore…

Tech News Mark Wilson Nov 6

SATA Rev 3 Specs Will Be Faster Than SATA 1 and 2 Combined

New SATA specs!! The governing body of SATA (known as SATA-IO) has announced their SATA Revision 3.0 specifications, which is important because it will dictate the transfer speeds of internal hard drives (among other things). SATA Rev 3 will hit data transfers up to 6 Gbps (the original maxed at 1.5 Gbps and sequel reached…

Tech News Mark Wilson Aug 18

Brando USB, eSATA HDD Dock Gets One-Touch Backup Button

Previously it was double slots and eSATA, now the cartridge-style HDD dock gets a one-touch backup button. Makes it ideal for backing up your main drive to an old HDD you’ve got spare, and then bunging the backup in a cupboard until you need it. It’s got eSATA and USB 2 connectivity and even comes…

Gadgets Kit Eaton Jul 2

HDD Plug-in Dock Gets Some Two-Slot, eSATA Action

First there was the strangely Nintendo cartridge-like USB HDD dock, then there was the USB hub version. Now the strange external drive dock has got two slots for either 3.5- or 2.5-inch SATA drives, and also connects to your PC via eSata. There’s one connection for each, mind you, so you’d better have a few…

Tech News Kit Eaton Jun 6

Seagate Showcase 1TB DVR Extender Records 12 HD Streams at Once (Now You Just Need 12 CableCards)

Seagate is taking their first crack at external DVR storage with the Showcase line of HDDs. The Showcase drives range in size from 250GB to 1TB, work with both eSATA and USB connections, and can record a whopping 12 HD streams simultaneously. For now, Motorola cable boxes are the only ones compatible with the Showcase,…

Tech News Benny Goldman May 19

Addonics Snap-In ExDrive25: Cheap ‘n’ Snazzy Way to Give Old 2.5-Inch Drives a Second Chance

Sure there are other ways to enclose old 2.5″ drives, but have you ever seen a more elegant one for 29 bucks? The Addonics Snap-In ExDrive25 promises hot-swappable connections via USB 2.0 and eSATA (if your PC can support it). Since eSATA can’t power the drive via the bus—not yet anyway—you’d have to buy the…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Apr 22

Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II Has eSATA, Better Mac Support

Western Digital’s been churning out these My Book external hard drives in all sorts of configurations, but this 1 and 2TB Studio Edition IIs seem to be the most feature rich yet. It’s got FireWire 400/800, eSATA, USB 2.0, RAID 0 or 1, and Mac support (you can also reformat it for PCs). Looking at…

Tech News Jason Chen Apr 2

Self-Powered eSATA On the Way; Power Bricks Everywhere Shudder In Fear

The Serial ATA Standards guys just approved a bus-powered eSATA spec that may see the light of day as early as late summer or early fall. This comes as a relief since eSATA is making its way into the mainstream via the home-theater realm (as DVR add-ons), where demands for the power brick to just…

Tech News Wilson Rothman Jan 16

Western Digital 1TB MyBook Drives Infested With DRM?

The guys at Wired and BoingBoing stirred up a hornet’s nest this morning by alleging that Western Digital’s 1TB MyBook World Edition external hard drives “won’t share media files over network connections.” That got us worried, since we just acquired one of the 1TB three-way (eSATA, FireWire and USB) Home Edition drives to plug into…

Tech News Charlie White Dec 7

eSATA

There’s 10 Drives and 80TB of Storage Hiding Inside This Tower

Seagate’s New GoFlex Turbo Keeps Your Data in a SafetyNet

You Can’t Upgrade the Hard Drive in the New iMacs

Add an External eSATA Port to Your New iMac

LaCie’s Color-Coded Flat Cables For Sassy Setups

ExpressCard 2.0 Spec Is Out and Promises to Be 10x Faster

WD My Book Studio Edition II: 4 Terabytes + 4 Interfaces

Iomega eGo Triple-Interface 500GB Drive Drops a Gig In 15 Seconds Flat

Rumor: Dell Adamo to Pack Blu-Ray and eSATA Peripherals

OCZ Pushing Out a Line of Crafty, Power-Grubbing eSATA Thumb Drives

Kanguru’s e-Flash Drive Can Handle USB and eSATA

Datamore Porté Adds Lambo Doors to Your Hard Drive

SATA Rev 3 Specs Will Be Faster Than SATA 1 and 2 Combined

Brando USB, eSATA HDD Dock Gets One-Touch Backup Button

HDD Plug-in Dock Gets Some Two-Slot, eSATA Action

Seagate Showcase 1TB DVR Extender Records 12 HD Streams at Once (Now You Just Need 12 CableCards)

Addonics Snap-In ExDrive25: Cheap ‘n’ Snazzy Way to Give Old 2.5-Inch Drives a Second Chance

Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II Has eSATA, Better Mac Support

Self-Powered eSATA On the Way; Power Bricks Everywhere Shudder In Fear

Western Digital 1TB MyBook Drives Infested With DRM?

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