Samsung Story Station Plus Hard Drive Adds eSATA

November 25, 2009 By Geoff Duncan

Samsung's new Story Station Plus external hard drive pops up to a 2 TB capacity and adds an eSATA interface for speedy transfers.

South Korean electronics giant Samsung has rolled out a new line of Story Station Plus 3.5-inch external hard drives, improving on its earlier Story Station models by bumping capacities up to 2 TB and adding an eSATA interface for speedy data transfer. The eSATA interface enables transfers at rates up to 3 Gb/s; there’s also a USB 2.0 interface for hooking up to machines without an eSATA port.

“Samsung new line of high-density solutions with the eSATA interface give users the speed they need for demanding tasks like photo and video editing, plus safely storing multimedia content libraries,” said Samsung Electronics’ VP of storage marketing H.S. Lee, in a statement.

The drives are available in either 1 or 2 TB capacities, and feature a power-saving design that lets the drives drop down to just 0.1 watts of power consumption in standby mode—although the drives are still power-friendly when operating, eating just 2.5 watts. The drives also include Windows-only Samsung Auto Backup, SecretZone (for encrypting private data), and SafetyKey for password protection.

The Story Station Plus drives should be available this month; suggested retail pricing for the 2 TB version is $299.

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puncball at 8:36am 5th February 2010 This drive, with eSATA, has been been reported as being available, world wide from November 2009. It is now February 2010, and I have not seen this "PLUS" version of the Samsung Station Story, for Sale, anywhere. Certainly not in the UK
Nathan at 3:12pm 24th January 2010 Im glad im not the only one having this issue. I too am looking for a UK supplier but cant find one from the US either. Iv emailed samsung but with no reply... mebe one of you guys will have some more luck.

Thankyou...
Brian at 12:32am 17th January 2010 Thank you for looking.

What I find interesting is that if you perform a Google (or any other) search for the Plus version, with eSATA, you only find pages which say it will be available at the end of November 2009,

I cannot find any site (in any country) which has this item in stock - shall keep looking
Ian Bell at 2:53pm 16th January 2010 Doesn't look like it's available in the UK yet, this is all I could find:

http://shopping.kelkoo.co.uk/ctl/do/search?site...
Brian at 2:29pm 16th January 2010 As far as I can see, these are for the Story Station; not the Story Station Plus, which has an eSATA connection

Oh, and by the way, I am looking for a UK (England) suppier.
Ian Bell at 10:53am 16th January 2010 Looks like Newegg has them: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?...
Brian at 8:33am 16th January 2010 Availible end of November 2009, or should this be 2012??
I keep looking, but have not seen a mention at any retailer
dang at 3:15pm 26th November 2009 This external drive is sharp looking, plus i like the 2TB of storage and eSata!