Monday, June 22nd 2009
Walton Chaintech Announces APOGEE Pronto eSATA Drive
Reacting to users' demands for portable, high speed storage, Walton Chaintech has announced its new APOGEE Pronto eSATA drive. Modeled after APOGEE's award-winning SSD design, the Pronto uses the eSATA port instead of the USB 2.0 port for its file transfers. This product specifically targets users who require better performance and capacities than conventional flash pen drives but do not require speeds to run software and operating systems like SSDs.
The APOGEE Pronto eSATA has dualistic connectors, supporting both the eSATA and USB ports. This flexibility allows users to use the Pronto as a simple high capacity storage device, while also supporting read/write speeds of 90/50MB/s respectively, about three times faster than conventional flash pen drives. Available in 32G and 64G capacities, the Pronto supports users to store a multitude of different file types, from multimedia to office documents or any combination of both.
If users are looking for a product that holds more information, has faster data transfer speeds than conventional USB flash drives, look no further than the APOGΣΣ Pronto eSATA drive.
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Walton Chaintech
The APOGEE Pronto eSATA has dualistic connectors, supporting both the eSATA and USB ports. This flexibility allows users to use the Pronto as a simple high capacity storage device, while also supporting read/write speeds of 90/50MB/s respectively, about three times faster than conventional flash pen drives. Available in 32G and 64G capacities, the Pronto supports users to store a multitude of different file types, from multimedia to office documents or any combination of both.
21 Comments on Walton Chaintech Announces APOGEE Pronto eSATA Drive
and the cost?
I hope it's not too expensive!!
weer, they have both. just like every other one of these drives, the USB2.0 port will be used for power when the E-sata is used, and when its not, the USB port works as a standard flash drive.
www.techpowerup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=96666
Or do you need to connect it like this?
www.elitebastards.com/hanners/ocz/throttle/images/inuse_esata_tn.jpg
I guess it wouldn't be that smart of an idea to release a drive with a single connector that combined eSATA and USB like the one in my thread because I'm not sure if you'd be able to plug it into a regular eSATA port. I know you won't be able to just plug it into a USB port.
"from multimedia to office documents or any combination of both"
I just cant wait to get some pr0nz and some spreadsheets on the same drive!
It has a built in USB cable but also supports eSATA. It comes with a small power port that gets power from USB via a cable and also plugs into your eSATA port. You cant use the built in cable and eSATA at the same time. I guess there is a conflict in the internal controller lol.
Having a eSATA high copacity thumb drive helps though if you dont wanna carry around a drive.
-Indybird
www.ocztechnology.com/products/flash_drives/ocz_throttle_esata_flash_drive
Same case shape, same bump by the mini-usb connector, same cap, probably even the same jmf601 controller.
Nothing wrong with that though, I have a throttle and it's very fast, 30MB/sec either direction on USB, and the read speeds on eSATA are a little faster at about 60MB/sec. Compare this to most USB-only flash drives, you'll find that most of them have decent read speed but 5MB/sec write speed which is brutal.
Am I weird? :p
The eSATA leads are on the top of the horizontal "bridge" inside the connector, while the USB leads are on the bottom. They work independantly, so what I'm asking is if someone could come out with a drive that has that port on it (in addition to a USB port for compatibility with computers without the combo port) so I could plug it into the combo port and have it be powered by the USB and transfer through eSATA.