• @Nilz
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    653 months ago

    This reminds me of the e-SATA port that was also a USB port.

    • @deranger@lemmy.world
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      123 months ago

      eSATA seemed like it had potential but I can’t say I ever actually used it. I remember those ports, though. Might have a motherboard kicking around in storage with one.

      • @Toribor@corndog.social
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        13 months ago

        There was a brief period of time where eSATA was starting to show up and there were never enough USB 3 ports. eSATA would have been kind of handy but I’ve never used it either.

      • @fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world
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        13 months ago

        I used esata back in the day and I loved it. I had a second hard drive that I could plug into my laptop with all my games on it. This was back when SSDs were $1 per GB on a good day so 120GB SSDs were typical.

        And even in the early days of USB 3 external HDDs were slow. It wasn’t until uasp became a thing that they didn’t suck outside of backing up large files.

    • qupada
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      83 months ago

      eSATAp! What a wild combination.

      Not actually a terrible idea, even if it frequently was limited to powering 2.5" drives due to a lack of 12V. Some had extra contacts for that, but most that I saw didn’t.