http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/ Engadget Comments for Brando's USB 3.0-to-SATA adapter gives any old HDD those SuperSpeed powers http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/Dec 28th 2009 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/Dec 28th 2009 9:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/
Or get a girlfriend...]]>Dec 28th 2009 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/Dec 28th 2009 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/Dec 28th 2009 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/
Man your pimp just told you off don't feel me!]]>Dec 28th 2009 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/
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and this]]>Dec 28th 2009 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/Dec 28th 2009 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/Dec 28th 2009 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/Dec 28th 2009 10:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/Dec 28th 2009 10:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/
USB2 transfer rate somewhere around 20-25 MB/s
IDE transfer rate is up to 66-100 MB/s (if UDMA/66 or UDMA/100 is employed, which the past 8 years of IDE drives have used one of the two)

There are definitely IDE drives out there that can exceed USB2 performance.... A 36GB Raptor, for one. At the same time, it is pointless to bother to create an IDE to USB3 bridge because the market is pretty small, and dying.]]>Dec 28th 2009 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/Dec 28th 2009 1:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/*that's =(]]>Dec 28th 2009 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/
Darren, you've summed up one of the main reasons why we love Engadget so much.]]>Dec 28th 2009 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/Dec 28th 2009 10:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/Dec 28th 2009 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/No. A good SATA-II drive (Lets say the Hitachi UltraStar A7K1000 or A7K2000 -- both have 7200rpms, around ~8ms seek times, and large amounts of cache) can do well over 100 Megabytes per second.
USB 2.0 is limited to about 40 MB\sec (real world around 30 to 35).

Sata III drives are getting even faster...and let's not forget solid state drives as well, which can push the barrier up to 300, 400, and newer ones 500 megabytes per second.]]>Dec 28th 2009 10:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/
Not even close. USB2 has an average transfer speed of 2MB a second. Hard drives read/write at 80-110MB a second.]]>Dec 28th 2009 10:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/Dec 28th 2009 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/Dec 28th 2009 10:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/
I think they meant it as in the expression "any old Tom, Dick and Harry".

Besides, the majority of desktop SSDs are SATA at the moment too!]]>Dec 28th 2009 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/Dec 28th 2009 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/There are numerous USB3.0 docking stations out.
http://usb.brando.com/usb-3-0-sata-hdd-docking-station-y-1071-_p01349c057d15.html
http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/sharkoon-sata-quickport-adds-usb-3-0-support-doesnt-forget-its/]]>Dec 28th 2009 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/Dec 28th 2009 10:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/Dec 28th 2009 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/
Or you could just put the drive back inside the computer case. So much neater. This is good for those "oh my computer died can you please copy the old data the hard drive it for me" scenarios though.]]>Dec 28th 2009 10:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/Dec 28th 2009 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/Dec 28th 2009 10:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/
Keep in mind that there are more laptops in the world than desktops. With a laptop, you'll get one eSATA port at best and 3-5 USB ports. Would you still rather have USB2 or USB3? Keep in mind that they are also ditching Firewire -- it's getting harder and harder to find that 4-pin Firewire port on a laptop.

Here's are USB's primary two advantages:
Power over cable. (Yes it still is an advantage -- here's why) Because eSATA was released without the means of handling power, most eSATA devices and systems do not offer power over eSATA. So you have to have backup means of getting power to the device if power over eSATA is not supported on both ends of the connection. USB3 will never have this problem, and it will probably become ubiquitous before eSATA is, though eSATA has quite a headstart.

Here are USB3 devices I want to see:
- Notebook docking station -- finally we'll have the bandwidth to potentially have real USB docking stations with enough video power to be usable. As it is, gigabit ethernet alone far exceeds USB2 bandwidth.
- Camcorders and Digital Cameras (can currently saturate the USB2 bus during transfers)
- webcams (quality limited due to USB2 lack of bandwidth)
- Fast USB3 SSDs (still require power, after all)]]>Dec 28th 2009 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/Dec 28th 2009 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/Dec 28th 2009 11:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/Dec 28th 2009 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/Dec 28th 2009 11:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/Dec 28th 2009 12:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/Dec 28th 2009 1:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/Dec 28th 2009 2:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/
Note: I'm not referring specifically to the product mentioned in the post, but to SATA-to-USB adapters in general. Do you think my fears are warranted?]]>Dec 28th 2009 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/Dec 28th 2009 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/Dec 28th 2009 7:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/28/brandos-usb-3-0-to-sata-adapter-gives-any-old-hdd-those-supersp/Obviously you'll need USB 3.0 ports which I think is still expensive (CMIIW though). As of now, the USB 2.0 enclosure works fine for me.]]>Dec 28th 2009 7:31PM