{mosgoogle}Storage is big business these days and most evident of this isthe high demand by consumers for DVD writers and media, high capacity hard disk drives and portable flash memories. This increase in demand is not unexpected when we consider the pervasiveness of broadband Internet connection and the easy availability of digital multimedia content. Even more important is the fact that without high capacity storage mediums such as DVD media, commercialization of games for video game consoles, music and movies for home entertainment would have been all but impossible. On the front of personal storage, declining prices of hard disk drives, DVD media and flash memories have transformed the way we manage our increasingly insatiable appetite for digital data ranging from pictures, software, audio to video content.

eSATA

Along with the soar in the storage ceiling of hard disk drives (HDD) came a demand for portable, high capacity storage devices, and the more cost effective are external HDD enclosures. By simply inserting a regular hard disk drive into a specially designed enclosure (either PATA or SATA, depending on the HDD) and jacking it in to either a USB 2.0 or Firewire port, consumers can easily have a portable HDD that provides storage in excess of 400GB or the equivalent of storing more than 45 dual-layer DVD movies. As good as this sounds, it is during transfer of huge amount of data to and fro either USB 2.0 or Firewire connection that the bandwidth inadequacy of these connections is exposed.

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