esata port

One of the computers I am looking at has 2 esata ports on the back. I can see using one of them for a sata external drive, but what else would they be used for?

Fay

I found this article... read the user comments for more info

http://port16.com/blog/2007/11/01/what-is-esata/

Sam,

I guess maybe I am missing something. I didn't really see where it told other esata devices. I did see some discussion of some computer where you could plug usb devices into the esata ports because they were a combination port or something - not quite sure. I didn't read thru all the comments though.

I did some google searches and looked at some other links too - but still didn't find what other devices might use the port.


Thanks
Fay