Brace yourself: there are good odds another port will start popping up on PCs soon. This one is for eSATA, an external version of the technology that's used to connect hard drives inside the PC ...

One of the major changes in hard-drive technology in recent years is that most computers now use Serial ATA (SATA) connections, as opposed to the older ATA/IDE connections (also known as PATA, for ...

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 ...

If I have my external drive connected with eSata powered on when I start my computer, it will always show up in Windows. If however I power it up <I>after</I> Windows is running then it isn't ...

USB 2.0 is the most popular connection technology for external devices, with FireWire (either 400 or 800) a close second. However, if you really want extreme speed, eSATA is the way to go, as Seagate ...

External hard drives don’t tend to be the most exciting things in the world: they just sit there and store stuff. But the new Iomega Desktop Hard Drive eSATA/USB 2.0 320 GB adds something new to the ...

If you edit movies, take lots of digital photos, play games or listen to music files on your PC, a big, fast internal drive might not suffice. For more storage or a means to back up your PC’s internal ...

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 ...

eSATA lets external hard drives run at internal speeds. But don't expect to see mainstream PCs with those ports until 2008. Photos: eSATA drives Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...