Thecus Brings SATA to External Storage

eSATA Everywhere?

Silicon Image's Sil2515 is a native two-port SATA controller. It supports 300 MB/s transfers as well as all current features such as hot plugging and Native Command Queuing.

For notebooks, an external 3.5" hard drive attached via eSATA delivers much better performance than any available 2.5" notebook hard drive. You can, for example, use an internal 2.5" drive while you are traveling and then switch over to an external high-performance drive for home or office use.

Asus' A8R32-MVP comes with an eSATA port.

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Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.