Five eSATA Drives Reviewed @ Extremetech

**MIG-31** · Aug 22, 2007, 10:40 AM

Review: Extremetech
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It's a wonder we ever even used serial ports. Back in the dark days of computing, external devices connected to the PC via these 9-pin (or, arbitrarily, 25-pin) ports through which data crawled at, oh, around 300 bits per second. That's bits. If you had to copy, say, a 50 kb file via a 300 "baud" serial connection, it would take more than 20 minutes.

Aug 22, 2007, 10:40 AM	#1
MIG-31 HardwareHeaven News Mod Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 56,854 Rep Power: 471 System Specs	Five eSATA Drives Reviewed @ Extremetech Review: Extremetech _______________ It's a wonder we ever even used serial ports. Back in the dark days of computing, external devices connected to the PC via these 9-pin (or, arbitrarily, 25-pin) ports through which data crawled at, oh, around 300 bits per second. That's bits. If you had to copy, say, a 50 kb file via a 300 "baud" serial connection, it would take more than 20 minutes. __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here