19 Nov
2010
19 Nov
'10
6:28 p.m.
On 19/11/10 09:38, Mark Rogers wrote:
I agree that it does seem that all USB-SATA/IDE devices seem to be built around the lowest cost components with little regard to serious users.
How does eSATA compare?
Well eSATA devices are just SATA devices with a different connector so as long as your SATA chipset supports hotplug in Linux then you get all the functionality of your internal disks with the hotplug of USB and without the CPU bound (and actually quite slow in respect to modern drives) transfers of USB mass storage.
The only real inconvenience is not everything you might want to plug your disk into having eSATA ports and the connector not carrying power (even for laptop disks as with USB)