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Up until now, the eSATA standard has required its own power connector. While it can reach transfer rates triple those of USB 2.0 and FireWire 400, this has been its major drawback.

We guess its really a no-brainer, but it looks like quite a few manufacturers are really rather taken with the idea of powering eSATA devices over the connection itself (as opposed to a hackneyed ...

Of course, if you don't have a Power eSATA port on your laptop you can still use the LaCie drive. In the box there's a Y-cable which connects to a USB and a regular eSATA socket, pulling in power ...

MSI will provide a number of its products with an integrated Power eSATA connector. ... (SATA-IO) in early 2008, eSATA devices required power from either a USB cable or power adapter.

Will be able to power drives The Serial ATA International Organization, or SATA-IO, has released a press release about an upcoming change to the eSATA standard, which will allow for drives to draw ...

Bus powered refers to ability to transfer the necessary amount of power to operate the drive over the single connection, much like a lot of the newer bus-powered external USB hard drives.

Both the eSATA and USB ports are backwards compatible ... and 15 watts to bus-powered devices. The cables are now available to order from Kanex, priced at $29.95 for a 1.6-foot cord, or $69. ...

Normally eSATA devices need extra power via an adapter or an extra USB cable. This combo port supplies the needed power, so no extra USB cable for power is needed. Power eSATA is 8x faster in ...

Lacie isn't short of rugged external hard drives, but it has managed to introduce something a little different with the launch of a rugged drive equipped with a power eSATA interface. It's called ...

Put simply, the group is hoping to design a specification where power can be passed directly through a Power Over eSATA cable, and yes, they are aiming to "maintain compatibility with the existing ...

The Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex is a USB 2.0, FireWire 800, USB 3.0 drive, and eSATA drive, complete with auto-backup. A set of optional adapter cables makes the FreeAgent GoFlex one of the most ...