http://www.answers.com/topic/serial-ata External SATA Called external SATA or eSATA, signal requirements released as new standards in mid-2004 eSATA provides more performance than existing solutions and is hot pluggable. Feature: Key benefits of eSATA:Up to 6 times faster than existing external storage solutions: USB 2.0, & 1394 Robust and user friendly external connection High performance, cost effective expansion storage Up to 2 meter shielded cables and connectors
一家排線的規格 http://www.sonnettech.com/publicfiles/pdfs/pdf_datasheets/esata_data_cables_datasheet.pdf Robust external Serial ATA (eSATA).... 1 meter in length
http://www.techworld.com/networking/news/index.cfm?NewsID=3259 04 March 2005 eSATA: five times faster than USB eSATA II is capable of 300Mbit/s while USB 2.0 crawls behind with 45Mbit/s and even the first SATA spec manages 150Mbit/s. The SATA I/O organisation "owns" the external SATA specification (不知道在寫什麼... 上面單位, 應該是 MByte 才對...)