Announced on Monday at the NAB expo, the SeriTek/SpyderHUB is a small 4-ounce storage hub for FireWire and eSATA drives. Based on its spec sheet, the device will provide a wide range of ...

Put side by side with eSATA and FireWire 800, USB 3.0 is far superior. eSATA, an external connection that runs at the same speed as the internal SATA 1.0 bus, has a maximum theoretical of 3Gbps.

Five drives have FireWire 800 or 800/400 interfaces as well as USB 2.0, and the WiebeTech ToughTech XE Mini has an eSATA port, too. Though it offers tremendous speed, eSATA remains rare on ...

We tested the drive with each available port—FireWire 800, FireWire 400, USB 2, and eSATA. We copied a folder containing 1GB of data from our Mac’s hard drive to the external hard drive to ...

Although the eSATA port is faster than the FireWire 800, to use eSATA you must shell out for an expansion card. Edge Tech neither includes an eSATA card nor sells one separately.

The Akitio Super S3 is equipped with an array of connection ports including eSATA, USB 3.0, and 2 x FireWire 800, but unfortunately, it doesn’t include a Thunderbolt port.

The Thunder Dock is a hub that takes the throughput of Thunderbolt and switches it, giving an additional two USB 3.0 ports, two eSATA 6Gb/s ports, and a single bus powered Firewire 800 port.

Only available for the 27-inch iMac (not the 21.5-inch version), the eSATA fit basically involves OWC carving out a slot in the lower edge of your new all-in-one and screwing in a port.

The card slips into a PCIe x4 slot and adds two external FireWire 800 ports and one internal FireWire 800 port. The host card also has an optional internal power connector to offer power over the ...

This NitroAV host bus adapter is a professional grade eSATA/1394b (FireWire 800) Combo PCI Express x4 (4 lane), designed for Mac Pro and Windows users for virtually any device.

I just built myself a new PC based on the ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe which came with an eSATA port that specifically states it's 3.0Gb/s and that it "supports hot-plug functions".<br><br>So, since I ...