On Thursday, LaCie announced an unexpected upgrade to its Rugged line of hard drives with the LaCie Rugged eSATA. For the first time on a LaCie drive, you can have the speed of eSATA connectivity in ...

I just bought a A2395 Aluminum 3.5" ESATA + USB2.0 External Enclosure hard drive enclosure and a hard drive (Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 ST3250410AS 250GB). What kind of throughput should I be getting ...

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 ...

EZQuest Thunder RAID eSATA/USB 2.0 Portable System While EZQuest’s Thunder RAID eSATA/USB 2.0 Portable System weighs in at a hefty 16 pounds, this portable external RAID storage device has a rather ...

While not quite having reached the “dime a dozen” category, external hard drives have certainly proliferated over the past few years. The concept is simple: take a drive that normally has an ...

Former CNET editor Dong Ngo has been involved with technology since 2000, starting with testing gadgets and writing code for CNET Labs' benchmarks. He managed CNET's San Francisco Labs, reviews 3D ...

The folks who long ago brought you the Zip and Jaz drives (and a few other less memorable storage solutions) now introduce the candy-apple red eGo portable drive, and its gray, workhorse cousin, the ...

I recently bought a lacie quadra 2TB drive to use for video editing. When I first connected it as eSATA it wouldn't recognize the drive, so I connected as firewire and realized I needed to run a ...

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 ...

Some netbook hackers are happy when they’ve figured out how to replace a hard drive with a solid state disk, or add a touchscreen to their mini-laptops. And then there’s tnkgrl Mobile. For her latest ...

A number of vendors have released flash drives that combine eSATA and USB connectivity to offer high-speed data transfer and portability in one small device. Kanguru Solutions announced its eFlash ...