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tesseract on March 5, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: SSD firmware destroys digital evidence, researcher...

A "Thunderbolt hard drive" is a SATA hard drive plugged into a Thunderbolt interface card.

kovar on March 5, 2011 [–]

And an eSATA hard drive was often a PATA drive with an eSATA interface.

However, clients don't often like you cracking the case to get at the base interface.

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