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Just recently, MSI showed off its new upcoming list of eight notebooks and one motherboard sporting the new Power Over eSATA cable specification. It has happily taken claim to the title of ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

All other factors being equal, SATA connections are designed to offer faster data throughput; thinner, more-manageable cables ... implementation of eSATA doesn’t supply power to external ...

The Kanguru e-Flash uses a powered eSATA connection, which alleviates the need for external power cords, but the drive also comes packaged with an eSATA power bracket and an eSATA power cable for ...

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 ...

but the other adapter cables are available for $15 to $25 each. The powered eSATA cable is the least expensive, while the FireWire 800 cable is the most expensive on its own. This price difference ...

Still, when connected to a combination of eSATA and USB ports, LaCie boasts that the bus-powered unit can achieve transfer speeds of 90MBps. In a portable drive, that’s especially impressive.

The eSATA USB Hybrid Port (EUHP) also eliminates the external power cable by supplying 5 or 12 volts to eSATAp (eSATA powered) drives (see below). See SATA and USB.

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 ...