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Spec Will Cut External Drive Power Cords

Posted by Zonk on from the could-have-used-that-about-24-hours-ago dept.

Lucas123 writes "The Serial ATA International Organization just revealed that it is well along the way to finishing a specification that would remove separate power cords to external SATA drives or optical disk drives, allowing them to draw power from the host system. The resulting new cable, being called Power Over eSATA, will be compatible with the existing eSATA connector and support the current maximum interface transfer rate of 3Gb/s. The SATA organization expects the new cables to be released later this year to drive makers."

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  1. Re:Cables by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe you are not properly placing your vibrator?

  2. Re:At least its not Power Over SATA by theRiallatar · · Score: 5, Funny

    You say POSATO, I say POSATA.

  3. Existing power situation with SATA is hilarious by dwalsh · · Score: 4, Funny

    Parallel ATA (A.K.A IDE): Big Parallel data cable with a shitload of pins. 4 pin power cable.

    Serial ATA: Serial data cable with just 7 pins. Power cable has twice as many pins!

    Did they just move the lines to the power cable? :-)

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  4. Re:no excuse by ScrappyLaptop · · Score: 2, Funny

    Never attribute to incompetence that which you can attribute to managment best practices.

  5. Re:At least its not Power Over SATA by MiniMike · · Score: 4, Funny

    Maybe they could call it PATA to avoid confusion...