A DisplayPort Port That You Can Plug HDMI Into

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• warm@kbin.earth ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Or we can just use DisplayPort?

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  • zelifcam@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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    • warm@kbin.earth ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Unfortunately most get royalties from HDMI, so won't endorse an alternative.

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• Nilz@sopuli.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This reminds me of the e-SATA port that was also a USB port.

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  • mox@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

    www.monoprice.com/product?p_id=8492

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  • deranger@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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    • hardaysknight@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I actually just bought a PCIe eSATA card to use with a 4 bay HDD enclosure. The ports kinda suck though

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    • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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    • Toribor@corndog.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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  • qupada@kbin.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

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• BombOmOm@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  TIL that is a thing that exists and works!

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  • lemmylommy@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    More or less. Not very robust though.

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• CaptainProton@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Can every KVM do this please?

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  • Natanael@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨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…

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    • CaptainProton@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You mean like a $500 level 1 techs KVM?

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• just_another_person@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Image

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• jordanlund@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The obvious difference is the shape of the connector in the port. The DP proper has a little “L” leg on it.

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• femboy_bird@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait bringus has another channel? How did i not know this

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