Verbatim Store 'n' Go - About the Hard Drive; About Powered eSATA

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A
bo
ut t
he
Har
d
Driv
e
The hard drive comes
p
re-
f
ormatted in FAT32
f
ormat. This
f
ormat allows
f
or
o
p
eration wit
h
eit
h
er Win
d
ows or Mac OS
.
N
ote: Capacity
d
epen
d
ent on mo
d
e
l
. 1 MB = 1,000,000
b
ytes / 1 GB = 1,000,000,000
bytes / 1 TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. Some capacity used for pre-loaded software,
f
ormatting and other functions, and thus is not available for data storage. As a result,
and due to differing calculation methods, your operating systems may report as
f
ewer me
g
ab
y
tes/
g
i
g
ab
y
tes/ terab
y
tes
.
About Powered eSATA
External SATA (or “eSATA”) ports can trans
f
er data at very high data rates (up
to 3.0 GB/s). However, the original eSATA speci
fi
cation does not provide a
power connection t
h
roug
h
t
h
e stan
d
ar
d
eSATA connector. T
h
is is inconvenient
f
or portable external hard drive applications, because it means use o
f
the
porta
bl
e
d
rive requires
b
ot
h
a
d
ata ca
bl
e an
d
a separate power ca
bl
e or AC
p
ower a
d
a
p
ter to
p
ower t
h
e
d
rive
.
Recentl
y
man
y
la
p
to
p
manu
f
acturers have included a combination USB
/
eSATA connector t
h
at can
b
e use
d
in con
j
unction wit
h
a s
p
ecia
l
Powere
d
eSATA Cable to
p
rovide a sin
g
le-cable solution
f
or
p
ortable Powered eSAT
A
hard drives, such as
y
our new Verbatim drive. The combination USB/eSAT
A
connector looks like the
p
icture below, and mi
g
ht be labeled on
y
our la
p
to
p
as “
US
B
/
e
S
ATA” or as
“
e
S
ATA “.
I
f
your laptop computer provides such a combination connector, you can
take advantage of the single-cable Powered eSATA interface by using the
supp
l
ie
d
Powere
d
eSATA Ca
bl
e to connect your Ver
b
atim porta
bl
e
d
rive to
your
l
aptop
.