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Also dropped support for FireWire drives, as I just found out the hard way.

Well, I guess I can finally throw out all those FireWire cables I have "just in case."

Fortunately, my FireWire drives also support other interfaces, though far more slowly.

Stick them on eBay or at least Freecycle. They are getting hard to find now.

For 2 elderly HP Microservers I need eSATA caddies, and those I cannot find at all anywhere.

Ah. Mine died a few years ago and I just got rid of them, or else I'd have shared.

It's kinda wild how long external HDDs, not even SSDs, were bottlenecking themselves on USB 2. I don't get why they didn't just use eSATA.