Samsung reveals 2TB external hard drive with eSATA interface
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 23, 2009 at 3:33pm
Samsung has announced the Story Station Plus, its new line-up of 3.5-inch external hard drives featuring an external serial ATA (eSATA) interface.
The 3.0-gigabit per second (Gbps), high-performance drives are available in up to 2TB densities, providing consumers with a high-performance external storage solution, according to H.S. Lee, vice president, storage marketing, Samsung Electronics. The 2TB density Story Station Plus drive can store the data equivalent of 500,000 MP3 music files, 560,000 digital photo images, or 880 hours of high resolution video.
The addition of the eSATA interface raises the data transfer speed of the Story Station Plus series by more than six-fold when compared with models using a USB 2.0 interface, the standard connector for most external hard drives, says Lee. The Story Station Plus users can utilize either the 480 megabit per second (Mbps) USB 2.0 or the 3.0 Gbps eSATA interface.
The Story Station Plus line-up will also feature Samsung’s low standby power design that purportedly reduces the standby power by 96% to 0.1 watts (W) from the conventional 2.5W. The hard drive is available in densities ranging from 1TB to 2TB.
The Story Station Plus drives will be available globally by the end of November. The Story Station Plus features a three-year limited warranty, and the 2TB version has a manufacturer’s suggested retail price of US$299.
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