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[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago (3 children)

eSATA seemed like it had potential but I can’t say I ever actually used it. I remember those ports, though. Might have a motherboard kicking around in storage with one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

There was a brief period of time where eSATA was starting to show up and there were never enough USB 3 ports. eSATA would have been kind of handy but I've never used it either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I actually just bought a PCIe eSATA card to use with a 4 bay HDD enclosure. The ports kinda suck though

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I used esata back in the day and I loved it. I had a second hard drive that I could plug into my laptop with all my games on it. This was back when SSDs were $1 per GB on a good day so 120GB SSDs were typical.

And even in the early days of USB 3 external HDDs were slow. It wasn’t until uasp became a thing that they didn’t suck outside of backing up large files.