Iomega has begun its first external hard drive in shipping. The external hard drive equipped with an eSATA port for direct connection to a PC’s Serial ATA bus, the storage specialist announced this week. No worries if you ain’t got a eSata because Iomaga’s bundling a suitable PCI add-in adaptor. The drive also comes with a USB 2.0 port too. eSATA connects at 1,500Mbps compares USB 2.0 top speed of 480mbps or Firewire’s to-line rate of 800 mbps. Iomega offers a 320GB unit based on a 7,200rpm drive with 2MB of cache memory. The drive packs with suitable cables for both Mac and Windows user. It retails for $240 in US.

[via reghardware]