Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   Ryan Finnie (ryan@m29.us)'s status on Monday, 16-Feb-2026 15:00:39 JST Ryan Finnie

   @whitequark See also eSATAp, where an engineer took DMT one evening, realized eSATA and USB were physically compatible, and said "right, this is going on laptops for the next 5 years".

   • Embed this notice
     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Feb-2026 15:20:08 JST Miakoda

     in reply to

     @ryan @whitequark I had one of those ports. I found exacty 0 devices with which to see how eSATA works. Maybe that ports was broken from the factory, I'd have no way to know.
     Never in my life have I seen an eSATA device.

   • Embed this notice
     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Feb-2026 19:49:12 JST Miakoda

     in reply to

     • zbrando
     • Tofu :blobcatace:​

     @zbrando @ryan @whitequark @tofu I've heard that, but I've never seen one.

   • Embed this notice
     zbrando (zbrando@social.vivaldi.net)'s status on Monday, 16-Feb-2026 19:49:13 JST zbrando

     in reply to

     • Miakoda
     • Tofu :blobcatace:​

     @hellomiakoda
     eSATA was used to connect external drives when USB 3 was not yet available or sufficiently popular.
     The good: same SATA speeds as an internal drive.
     The bad: no power lines so the drives had to have an external power brick.
     @ryan @whitequark @tofu