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Must be purchased with a duplicator. Cannot be sold separately.
Until now, the only way to connect the duplicator to a PC was through a USB or firewire connection, that is until the introduction of the new eSATA connection.
What are the benefits of eSATA over USB or firewire? Firstly, eSATA does not have to translate data between the interface and the computer like USB and firewire. That means that since the user is connecting an eSATA cable from a PC to a SATA connected drive, it will provide a truer and more stable data transfer as opposed to connecting a SATA device like the HDD or optical drive to a PC through an alternate connection like USB or such. Secondly, because of this, eSATA has a much faster data transfer rate allowing files to be sent from the PC to the duplicator at speeds as high as 3Gb/sec, while USB 2.0 for instance is only 480Mb/sec. This greatly decreases the amount of time needed to download a file to the duplicator thus increasing the duplication production. |
