Which do you think will be around longer - SATA, eSATA or USB?

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I'll probably be buying a new drive or two soon and wanted to get your
opinion about which type of drive - SATA, eSATA or USB - you think will
still be in use on both existing and new systems over the next five
years or so.

Thanks,

John

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JLH said:
I'll probably be buying a new drive or two soon and wanted to get your
opinion about which type of drive - SATA, eSATA or USB - you think will
still be in use on both existing and new systems over the next five
years or so.

Thanks,

John
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I think they will both be in use over the next five years or so. Firewire
was rumored to be replacing USB, but that was many years ago, and firewire
seems to be consigned to a niche market now. I think your best bet is
ATA. -Dave
 
JLH said:
I'll probably be buying a new drive or two soon and wanted to get your
opinion about which type of drive - SATA, eSATA or USB - you think will
still be in use on both existing and new systems over the next five
years or so.
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As an internal drive, prefer SATA over ATA, if your MB supports it. For
an external drive, USB can be connected to about anything and will
remain around for a good while (at least for the lifetime of said disk,
I'd say), while eSATA has better performance, but isn't as universal as
USB yet(but if all your computers support it, go for it).
 
I think they will both be in use over the next five years or so. Firewire
was rumored to be replacing USB, but that was many years ago, and firewire
seems to be consigned to a niche market now. I think your best bet is
ATA. -Dave
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ATA/100/133? Ack... SATA is going to replace it.
 
I'll probably be buying a new drive or two soon and wanted to get your
opinion about which type of drive - SATA, eSATA or USB - you think will
still be in use on both existing and new systems over the next five
years or so.

Thanks,

John

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SATA for internal stuff, USB for external devices.
 
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Flasherly said:
ATA/100/133? Ack... SATA is going to replace it.
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Going to? SATA has replaced ATA already. It's been many moons since
I've even seen a new ATA drive, they're all SATA drives with a ATA -->
SATA chip onboard.
 
Thanks everyone for the responses.

I like the idea of the USB for ease of portability but really want the
higher throughput that SATA and eSATA offer, especially since the
drive(s) will be used for business and low end gaming. I already have
an USB external hd for backup, and it has saved my bacon a few times
already. I can say that if money were water I would be getting one of
those 4 bay external storage towers I've seen advertised by Addonics
and put several eSATA drives and a DVD device in it, but I'm not there
yet. At the moment, I think I'll probably get an internal SATA drive
knowing that when the budget allows I can buy an external storage tower
and move hd's and optical drives to it. As another poster pointed out,
heat is an electronics killer, and my ultimate goal is to move those
type of devices into their own enclosure away from my cpu.

I expect that whatever I buy will stay with me for quite some time, as
in years. Heck, my oldest pc had Seagate Barracuda SCSI's that only
recently started giving me problems after 10 years :-)

Again, thanks.

John

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