Paul wrote:
Bill in Co wrote:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , pjp
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In message , Paul
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You see, they *do* put USB pins on at least one flavor.
Just for the confusion it will cause.
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One of the three rectangular connectors on this laptop does indeed
look as if it's both USB and ESATA. (The other two are just USB.)

Yes, two in particular are Dell pc's and what's labelled eSata looks
identical to a Sata port. They're almost beside each other. I know
difference for USB btw.
So do I. This connector on my (Toshiba Portégé) laptop appears to be
_both_ - presumably to just save space. I presume it has both lots of
connections, and whatever you plug into it - either a USB type A plug,
or an ESATA cable - only makes contact with one of them.

Can someone show me a picture of an eSATA - USB connector? Is there
even a unique standard for such a thing? Just curious.

I can't get a picture of all of them in one place.

https://www.addonics.com/technologies/euhp.php

The hybrid port is taller than the plain ESATA.
Presumably the hybrid port, the ESATA cable plugs
into the top, while the USB plugs into the bottom,
in a sense.

Addonics might have been one of the web sites pushing this.

Paul

That is one weird looking connector. It will be interesting to see if this
ever becomes mainstream. I think I'd prefer separate connectors, but maybe
I'm being conservative and old fashioned. I think the eSata ones were a bit
(slightly) flimsy at it is, however.