This reminds me of the e-SATA port that was also a USB port.
A DisplayPort Port That You Can Plug HDMI Into
Submitted 7 months ago by p1mrx@sh.itjust.works to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZpHizpZSPQ
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Nilz@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 7 months ago
eSATAp. (The p is for power!)
You can add these ports to a PC. With help from the motherboard and power supply, they’ll support both USB and eSATA, including mechanical drives that need 12V power.
www.newegg.ca/…/17Z-00AT-00001
With the right cable, you can plug bare drives into them, which is convenient for backups, imaging, etc.
deranger@lemmy.world 7 months ago
eSATA seemed like it had potential but I can’t say I ever actually used it. I remember those ports, though. Might have a motherboard kicking around in storage with one.
hardaysknight@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I actually just bought a PCIe eSATA card to use with a 4 bay HDD enclosure. The ports kinda suck though
fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I used esata back in the day and I loved it. I had a second hard drive that I could plug into my laptop with all my games on it. This was back when SSDs were $1 per GB on a good day so 120GB SSDs were typical.
And even in the early days of USB 3 external HDDs were slow. It wasn’t until uasp became a thing that they didn’t suck outside of backing up large files.
Toribor@corndog.social 7 months ago
There was a brief period of time where eSATA was starting to show up and there were never enough USB 3 ports. eSATA would have been kind of handy but I’ve never used it either.
qupada@kbin.social 7 months ago
eSATAp! What a wild combination.
Not actually a terrible idea, even if it frequently was limited to powering 2.5" drives due to a lack of 12V. Some had extra contacts for that, but most that I saw didn't.
BombOmOm@lemmy.world 7 months ago
TIL that is a thing that exists and works!
lemmylommy@lemmy.world 7 months ago
More or less. Not very robust though.
CaptainProton@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Can every KVM do this please?
Natanael@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
You can make it sooo cursed lol.
A KVM usually have circuitry that can handle a specific total bandwidth and a specific number of HDMI or DP ports (I’ve seen a few where using 2x 4K displays would disable the remaining ports until disconnected due to bandwidth).
To make this work as expected for a KVM you need circuitry to handle all ports being used for either standard (expensive, lol), and have each physical port connected to I/O on both the HDMI and DP controller. Or support half and half, but connect each port to even more I/O ports and start doing switching…
CaptainProton@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You mean like a $500 level 1 techs KVM?
just_another_person@lemmy.world 7 months ago
jordanlund@lemmy.world 7 months ago
The obvious difference is the shape of the connector in the port. The DP proper has a little “L” leg on it.
femboy_bird@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
Wait bringus has another channel? How did i not know this
warm@kbin.earth 7 months ago
Or we can just use DisplayPort?
zelifcam@lemmy.world 7 months ago
warm@kbin.earth 7 months ago
Unfortunately most get royalties from HDMI, so won't endorse an alternative.