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eSATA Connectors
buffalocheese writes "Since the introduction of the Serial ATA 1.0a specification in 2002, many manufacturers have introduced PCI and CardBus cards with both internal and external SATA connections.
At first these internal and external connectors were completely identical, but later, external connectors started to appear which were still fully compatible with the internal sockets but featured added extra screening for external use.
With the introduction of the SATA II specification in mid 2004 a new external SATA connector was defined. These new external (eSATA) connectors are not compatible with the original internal SATA connection.
Currently there are add-on cards and drive housings available which feature both types of SATA connection for external use. Gradually the older types will disappear and all new SATA cards will feature the eSATA connector for external drive connections."
Frost Pist!
This is not news. This is clearly a marketing post.
Posting an article on a non-issue that links to a paragraph description on a vendor website about the topic? (And the entire paragraph was cut and paste into the article summary anyway) Sounds like Slashdot got played...
RTFA! Oh hang on, there isn't one - it's just quoting the blurb from a commercial website.
Since the introduction of the Serial ATA 1.0a specification in 2002, many manufacturers have introduced PCI and CardBus cards with both internal and external SATA connections.
At first these internal and external connectors were completely identical, but later, external connectors started to appear which were still fully compatible with the internal sockets but featured added extra screening for external use.
With the introduction of the SATA II specification in mid 2004 a new external SATA connector was defined. These new external (eSATA) connectors are not compatible with the original internal SATA connection.
Currently there are add-on cards and drive housings available which feature both types of SATA connection for external use. Gradually the older types will disappear and all new SATA cards will feature the eSATA connector for external drive connections.
Hmm, the summmary is the article, which is just a couple of paragraphs on some computer peripheral website. Slashvertisement, anyone?
Why this wasn't tagged with "slow news day" is beyond me.
sorry, but how is this news? I mean really the story is old, and anyone that has anything to do with building a computer (i.e. the only people that care about this story) already know about this. slow news day?
Someone doesn't like the fact that people are questioning the purpose of the original post. Censorship anyone?
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At a point when she could hardly walk she dropped her drawers and squatted over a potted plant. I told her "That won't make it grow any better it's plastic". She said something to the extent that she couldn't find the potty.
And so I'm looking for my camcorder, when my buddy comes back in the room. I was like "Dude, seen my camera?" and then FRAAAAAPPPPPPP! Then I was like "Too late nevermind". Goddamn it stunk too. Wall got spattered, and it got all over the carpet.
My friend was all "What the fuck is wrong with you? Why in God's green earth did you let her do that?"
I told him "How often do we see something like this?". Next morning he poured out the rest of the Jeagermeister. Ungrateful asshole. That shit cost me a pretty penny.