Samsung’s 3.5-inch STORY Station Plus HDD now features eSATA
UPDATE: The drives will be released by the end of this month for $299 (2TB).
Current Samsung STORY Station HDDs support only USB 2.0 interface but now with the arrival of STORY Station Plus, the new external HDDs also support eSATA. Winner of Good Design Award, the STORY Station Plus will give users the freedom to use USB 2.0 or eSATA for faster data transfers. USB 2.0 has transfer speeds of up to 480Mbps whereas eSATA transfer speed goes up to 3Gbps.
STORY Station Plus comes in capacities of 1/1.5/2TB options and boasts features like Auto Backup, SecretZone, SafetyKey and 0.09W power consumption in standby mode.
This drive, with eSATA, has been been reported as being available, world wide from November 2009. It is now February 2010, and I have not seen this “PLUS” version of the Samsung Station Story, for Sale, anywhere. Certainly not in the UK
That’s right Brian. I’ve been looking around here in Belgium and in Holland for two months now. Nowhere available, no pricing, nothing.