The Serial ATA International Organization (SATA-IO) has announced that it is working on a new specification that will provide power to external SATA (eSATA) devices without the need for a separate power connection. Called "Power Over eSATA initiative", the specification is expected to be completed sometime in the second half of this year.
Devices taking advantage of the new spec no longer will require a separate power cable but will draw power for a single drive directly from the host system using the Power Over eSATA cable. The SATA-IO said that the new cable will remain compatible with the existing eSATA connector and support the current maximum interface transfer rate of 3Gb/s. Power Over eSATA products are expected to be available on the market as soon as the second half of 2008.
News source: Toms Hardware
Devices taking advantage of the new spec no longer will require a separate power cable but will draw power for a single drive directly from the host system using the Power Over eSATA cable. The SATA-IO said that the new cable will remain compatible with the existing eSATA connector and support the current maximum interface transfer rate of 3Gb/s. Power Over eSATA products are expected to be available on the market as soon as the second half of 2008.
News source: Toms Hardware
Why would they need to improve speeds? How many hard drives do you know of that can even reach the full speed of SATA2?
Just keep in mind that USB has 2 major shortfall at data rates.
1. the bus is shared use 2 USB2.0 harddrives at once and you'll know it. (fundamentally i don't see this changing in USB3.0)
2. The data rate has bursts and cannot sustain it's through put as well as SATA
3. Latency of USB drives is higher due to translation of drives communication
More than likely the reason being is that you will still have to plug in a conector to the PSU to where the eSATA connector is on the board or daughter card. The motherboard itself only has so much juice running through it, that is why the drives themselves need to connect to the PSU, they'd have to pump a lot more power through the motherboard to power anything besides USB and Firewire which I believe are lower power specifications compared to hard drive and optical drives are.
****ing alot of people off
****ing alot of people off
dude, have you been living in a village thousand miles away? Computers have significantly changed from 386 days in the last few years and no, your fast 386 CPU won't fit in your newest motherboard
Last edited by Andrey on 15 Jan 2008 - 20:30
****ing alot of people off
dude, have you been living in a village thousand miles away? Computers have significantly changed from 386 days in the last few years and no, your fast 386 CPU won't fit in your newest motherboard
He'll make it fit. With a hammer.
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