What is ESata?

[Sager_Singh]

Is it faster than USB 3.0?

 

[getochkn]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA#eSATA

Is Esata faster than USB 3.0?
Thunderbolt 2 vs USB 3.0 vs eSATA: Speed. All three standards are much, much faster than USB 2.0, which tops out at 480Mbps. eSATA can deliver 6Gbps (older versions deliver 1.5Gbps or 3Gbps), USB 3.0 runs at up to 5Gbps and the incoming USB 3.1 should do 10Gbps. Thunderbolt can do 20Gbps.


Depends on the SATA version.

 

[ComputerSecurityGuy]

In theory, USB 3.0 is faster. But since eSATA has no conversion and less overhead it really is a better external storage interconnect.

 

[nukemaster]

eSATA is starting to become less popular since USB 3.0 should keep any hard drive happy. Even IF the overhead was 50%(and it is not) USB 3.0 would still be good for 300 megabytes/sec and hard drives are not that fast(at least not at this time).

They even had eSATA and USB in the same port to allow powering 2.5 inch drives.

eSATA cables are also not nearly as flexible and some of them are do not seem to last.

I do however like to use my eSATA port for testing drives(and still have an external eSATA drive).