Iomega has begun
shipping its
first external hard drives equipped with an eSATA port for direct
connection to a PC's Serial ATA bus, the storage specialist announced this week.
No eSATA port on your PC or Mac? Don't worry, Iomega's bundling a suitable PCI
add-in adaptor. The drive also has a regular USB 2.0 port too. eSATA connects at
1,500Mbps, rather more than USB 2.0's top speed of 480Mbps and even Firewire's
to-line rate of 800Mbps. The package retails for $240 in the US.
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