Dexter
Former SM Staff Member
3,580 Posts
9 Mar 2005, 6:10am
Imagine you were a computer tech consultant, and offered a service to your customers where you come by their office once a week and back up data from their main server and store it off site for safe keeping.
Given the choice of copying files to an external USB drive at 45 Mbps, or an external SATA drive at 150 to 300 Mbps, which would you prefer? Assuming that you are charging the customer a set fee for the service, not the time spent on it. With eSATA, you could back up data 6 times as fast, then move on to your next customer.
There's one use.
Dexter...
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