Intel Shows 'World's Fastest' Thumbdrive Using Thunderbolt

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The future is e-sata III thumb drives.

 

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The future is e-sata III thumb drives.

With USB3.1 just around the corner and UASP, as kludgy as that may sound, I doubt there would be that much demand for e-SATA3 since USB3.1/UASP would be both faster and more portable.

If you really want to eliminate piling up protocols and getting the most speed possible, native PCIe storage, internal or over Thunderbolt which practically is e-PCIe, would be the ideal thing.

 

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The future is e-sata III thumb drives.

With USB3.1 just around the corner and UASP, as kludgy as that may sound, I doubt there would be that much demand for e-SATA3 since USB3.1/UASP would be both faster and more portable.

If you really want to eliminate piling up protocols and getting the most speed possible, native PCIe storage, internal or over Thunderbolt which practically is e-PCIe, would be the ideal thing.

Wrong, e-sata III is straight on the drive bandwidth with no protocols, we're not talking anything internal, you know the actual performance of USB 5 will be HALF the speed of current e-sata III. It only requires changing the shape/connectors of the plugs to say bye-bye to USB forever, it was bad while it lasted, but now it's time to part ways. Most motherboards come with e-sata ports, just need to bring them all up to speed & offer more ports to replace antiquated USB.

 

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Wrong, e-sata III is straight on the drive bandwidth with no protocols

SATA is connected to PCIe. That's already one extra protocol and PHY conversion layer over a storage device using raw PCIe.

Most motherboards come with e-sata ports, just need to bring them all up to speed & offer more ports to replace antiquated USB.

My motherboard has an eSATA port but connecting external HDDs to it was unreliable at best. Speed is moot when it does not work reliably first. Making it work properly requires more work than simply slapping a connector on it.