I use USB for tons of stuff: It charges my phone, my headset, and my mp3 players. At work, we use USB flash drives to kick off imaging for new computers.
As of right now, there is no power provided by the eSATA bus, so it can't be used for flash readers or drives. This also means that eSATA can't charge anything. Also, it is worth mentioning that the current eSATA standard is 'only' capable of transferring at 3Gbps where USB 3.0 is capable of 4.8Gbps.
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I use USB for tons of stuff: It charges my phone, my headset, and my mp3 players. At work, we use USB flash drives to kick off imaging for new computers.
As of right now, there is no power provided by the eSATA bus, so it can't be used for flash readers or drives. This also means that eSATA can't charge anything. Also, it is worth mentioning that the current eSATA standard is 'only' capable of transferring at 3Gbps where USB 3.0 is capable of 4.8Gbps.