Tommy L
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Can someone please explain in layman terms?
I'm looking at a laptop and it says - 'there's no eSATA and none of the USB ports are ‘sleep & charge' enabled' and just want to know what it means.
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ed
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e SATA = external SATA, which is an external connection for attaching stuff like hard drives.
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Cavey
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eSATA is to connect SATA devices, usually hard drives externally. Can also be DVD drives as well
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noshua
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Basically a faster but lesser used USB port.
as for sleep and charge, http://laptops.toshiba.com/innovation-lab/sleep-and-charge
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Tommy L
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So basically couldn't connect an external HDD to it?
[Edited on 16-09-2009 by corsa_tomtom]
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_Allan_
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quote:
Originally posted by corsa_tomtom
So basically couldn't an external HDD to it?
Yeah you can because the external caddy just needs to have a E-SATA connection.
Most new ones come with USB or E-SATA connectivity. The quicker SATA connections are usually internal on your motherboard. All E-SATA means is an external port version of this so you can use an E-SATA cable outside to connect your external drive to.
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Tommy L
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So its not really a great loss not having an eSATA?
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_Allan_
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No it just transfers quicker than USB.
If you've seen a decent laptop without then I'd not lose sleep over that feature.
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Tommy L
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Thats ok then. Just read a review with it saying sony were being stingy by not adding it and just wondered if it was something really important that i may need.
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_Allan_
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You can add them anyway:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Short-e-SATA-II-PCMCIA-ExpressCard-3.0-Gb%2fs-34mm-laptop_W0QQitemZ390083425697QQcmdZViewItem
Most laptops will have a PCMCIA slot 
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Bart
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eSATA really isnt that important and with new USB standards being released (i.e USB3), I think eSTATA will drop off the radar shortly.
eSATA transfers around 1.5GB-3GB per sec, while USB3 is more closer to 10GB
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