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Put That eSATA Port To Good Use With A Dual-Interface Flash Drive

Started by dponce80 · 9 months ago

By Luke Anderson
I have two computers that sport eSATA ports on them that I’ve never touched. Sure, I even went the extra mile and made sure that the front ports on the case were hooked up, just in case I ever actually came across something useful that took advantage of it. It m ... Continue reading »

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  • skeptic

    9 months ago

    I call bullshit. The bottleneck on flash drives is the memory itself, not the USB2.0 throughput. USB2.0 throughput is 60MB/s. But you are lucky to find a flash drive that can read at better than 35MB/s. Using a connection with faster throughput does not improve the speed of the memory chips.
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  • Scott_T

    9 months ago

    Ditto to what skeptic says.
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  • Rimka

    8 months ago

    If you read the article it states that this isn't flash memory, it's a Solid State Drive (SSD), which can reach significantly higher speeds (Samsung just released one that does 200 MB/s). So while this won't FULLY utilize my poor SATA port it will certainly go much further then a flash drive
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