ITT: Technology that you have owned for years but never used once

SD card reader

Bluetooth anything
Nfc
(Nearly)all 16gb of RAM

>>58362924
bluetooth
esata
display port

The PS/2 port on any computer made after 2000. Yes, I know it's useful for debugging, but I haven't needed it for that yet.

Android's built in usb on the go.

I'm pulling an apple by going wireless with my Galaxy S7edge, heck, I don't even charge it with my usb cable. Qi charing is the future.

My SGI O2's the only thing that comes to mind, unless you want to count trying to install IRIX and OpenBSD as using it

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I have several card readers which support the xD picture card format.

I've never seen one in my life.

>>58363485
>xD

Get out underage

>>58363338
If you have played a PlayStation 3 or 4 using a wireless controller you have used bluetooth.

>>58363485
>using le me me intwewebz faces

fuck off underaged

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I have some old PC joysticks similar to pic related that have been sitting in a drawer for about 15 years. They look too cool to just throw away, but I have never got around to connecting them to anything.

>>58363496
>>58363521
ebin

I got a Bluray drive for my PC. Didn't use it one once.

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Digital cameras always have some bullshit feature to let you print things from the camera or email them to yourself. Never used this stuff one time and probably never will.

>>58363592
I have used the blu-ray drive in my PC a couple of times just to see if it works, but never actually watched a movie with it. I have two BD-RE's I got for christmas I might try burning pretty soon.

They look strange on the bottom, just a black mirror...

>>58363411
>unless you want to count trying to install IRIX and OpenBSD as using it
I believe that counts.

>>58363506
Or a Wii

>>58363656
Why would it? I never actually got to use it, only attempted to make it usable.

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I got one of these from a thrift store for a buck. It works perfectly as far as I can tell, but I have never taken a photo with it because the cartridges cost $15.

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>>58363496
>>58363521
Look at you two. Such jokesters.

>>58362924
esata
fire wire
ps/2
nfc
regular sd cards
those small pcie lanes

S/PDIF

My penis

raspberry pi
arduino

>>58363735
>implying you're a guy

btfo femannon.

>>58362924
>>58363574

>"game" port

>>58362924
bluetooth
vga ports
CD-ROM drives

I will probably go my whole life without ever using TOSLINK.

>>58363792
>never used VGA nor CDs
underage b&

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>not using Bluetooth headphones
These are glorious. I just wish they were waterproof so I could shower with them.

>>58363735
penises are technology

>>58363863
It helped reduce the amount of remotes needed in my home theater. One remote for all the volumes.

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This shit

>>58364340
>>58363863
>mfw using TOSLINK right now

just because that cable was included with my edifier s330d though

>>58364340
Yeah I've never really seen the need to get Toslink cables over regular coax for S/PDIF unless I'm absolutely forced to.

I have never used the video recording feature on my Nikon D5200.

Conversely, I have never used my GoPro HERO4 Black for still photos.

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>>58363735
delet

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esata w/o power is probably the most useless port ever created.

>>58365022
no way man, sata express is WAY more useless than esata. i mean, people don't even know what sata express even is, that's how unused it is.

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My motherboard has 8 SAS connectors and an onboard SAS raid controller but I have never used it and likely won't.

>>58365022
Can a single powered eSATA port drive 8 HDDs?

>>58365077
Your motherboard has SAS and SATA connectors? That's odd.

My computer has two ethernet ports. One of them is labeled ASF and apparently supports some kind of special protocol over the ethernet port that lets you take control of the computer even when its turned off.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alert_Standard_Format

If I could find a way to disable it I would.

esata
the little pcie slots between the big ones
DVI

>>58365087
Yes, it's a HP z800 workstation. The Xeon CPUs in it support some manner of server functions I never use as well.

>>58365077
10k/15k SAS drives can be had relatively cheap in low capacity models if you know where to look for them.

Also let me guess, you have a Supermicro motherboard with an LSI chip onboard.

>>58363388
>qi charging is the future
>meanwhile its already slow and doesnt work properly if you don't have a case for the phone thats thinner than a paper asshole
>imolying that its better than dynamic fast charging

toslink is pretty nice if you have the hacked realtek DD/DTS live drivers.

>>58363681
Wii uses IR.

>>58365087
Workstation class will usually have SAS

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>people itt don't even know what the different PCIe slot sizes are and just know the largest and smallest as the big slot and the little slot

>>58365140
The Wii controller uses IR to track its location and reports that along with all other inputs to the Wii over Bluetooth.

>>58365144
I know. What I'm saying is SAS is backwards compatible with SATA so it's odd that they'd include SATA ports.

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I've had this saitek flight simulator for like 4 years and haven't so much as plugged it in yet.

>>58365164
Well not really location as much as angle in relation to the screen but you get the point, it uses Bluetooth.

>>58365087
No in fact esata is so useless it can't provide power at all, so you are forced to power whatever device it's connected to independently.

There does exist a version of esata with power+usb integrated but it's rare to find.

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>>58365128
Yes, I believe the HP boards are sourced from Supermicro and it does have an LSI controller.

>>58365077
Did you know 1 SAS port can connect 4 SATA drives? You could stick 32 hard drives in your computer assuming you have room.

>>58365128
Any downside to using them compared to SATA drives for data storage?

>>58365179
Sorry, I meant to ask about eSATAp. My point is that if d eSATAp can't provide enough power for a RAID enclosure then a regular eSATA port is just as useful as you're not going to be taking advantage of the power anyway. My old laptop had eSATAp, used it all the time for both USB and eSATA itself

>>58365164
Usually the storage controller will support something like 8 SAS (also SATA) ports with an additional 4 SATA ports. Since it is workstation class board, they wire up all the supported ports while a lower class might only wire up the 8 SAS ports.

USB controllers do the same thing. They might support 6 USB 3.0 and 2 USB 2.0. The 2.0 ports might not be wired up on your motherboard.

>>58363863
I bought a TOSLINK cable because my shiny new sound card back then supported it. I've never opened the container and it has been sitting in my drawer for about a decade. Was only like two bucks though.

I also went to an electronics store around the same time and asked for digital speakers. They were just perplexed and didn't know what to say.

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>>58365264
Wait a minute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Attached_SCSI

This motherboard is from 2010. The SAS ports should be SAS-2, right?

That would give them a data transfer rate of 6gb/s. Compared to the SATA ports on the board which are only SATA2.

If you wanted to use this workstation and get the most out of it should you buy SAS SSDs?

>>58365205
Yes the cable that does this is called Mini-SAS SFF-8087/SFF-8463. Pretty much the standard way of connecting SAS drives to an HBA or RAID card.

>>58365209
No, SAS drives are definitely superior to SATA drives especially if you value data integrity. However they are priced much higher per gigabyte and you must have a RAID card or JBOD controller to access them which aren't cheap either.

>>58365341
or maybe not:

>6 channels of Serial ATA (SATA) and 8 channels of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) 3.0 Gb/s natively
supported internally; SATA RAID level 0, 1, 5 and 10 and SAS RAID** level 0, 1, 10 available on
motherboard*

http://www.hp.com/canada/products/landing/workstations/files/13278_na.pdf

I guess the z800 used original SAS.

>>58365244
I really doubt an esatap port could power an external RAID enclosure by itself. Does it not have a power supply of it's own?

>>58363485
xD

>>58365368
That's my point.

>>58365377
To answer the question, at least eSATAp can at least power a single drive which is useful enough for my requirements. I'd never want to both power an external array of disks and have all the data come down through one 6Gb/s connection anyways.

Also I don't believe there are any cables out there that could entirely power a RAID enclosure either, even external Mini-SAS cables can't do this and require the target drives to be powered from elsewhere.

>>58363873
I've used them just not the ones on my current devices

>>58363485
this card could have become a meme

>>58365534
Which in turn means that eSATA is useful, just not for you.

>>58362924
Intel Integrated graphics on my gaming desktop

>>58365830
It's pointless when USB 3.1 w/ UASP exists.

DVI
USB OTG
Small PCI slots pn mobo
Firewire
Serial Port
Docking Station Ports on laptop
NFC
Radiator mounts on case

>>58365915
USB is trash, I'll take eSATA.

>>58363574

I had the top one with my Apple 2e. Bought it again for PC. Still have it somewhere, but I don't have a sound card with a game port in any of the machines I use regularly.

>>58365961
>USB is trash
Mhmm, riiiight

>>58365986
It is. It's like Windows, it sucks yet is the most popular.

>>58365189

Man I like those Z-series workstations. Keeping an eye on Craigslist for a really good deal.

>>58365961
>eSATA at 6gbs
>USB 3.1 at 10gbs w/ SCSI
your choice so more power to you then :^)

>>58366063
I'll take the interface that doesn't need to piggyback on the CPU.

HDMI and VGA ports on my video cards.

>>58364340
I use it to connect my tv to my sound system

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i don't know if i'm just too young

>>58366136
You are. In the IDE days you had to use these. Autoconfiguration of drives sucked and things would often conflict or not be detected.

>>58366136
That is the master/slave jumper for IDE devices. I literally just used it today.

>>58366001
You are literally retarded. Kill yourself and your entire family immediately.

Can you plug in SATA HDD even if it is an SAS connector?

t. ML350 G5 owner

>>58366214
no u

>>58366229
You should have been aborted, you fucking shit stain. Get raped twice and kill yourself, you retarded fucking faggot sack of nigger shit with down syndrome. Your entire family tree deserves to be gassed, you mouth-breathing mongoloid.

>>58366258
You're a blimp fart.

>>58366225
>Can you plug in SATA HDD even if it is an SAS connector?
Yes SATA drives can be plugged into a SAS connector, just not the other way around though.

>>58362924
You missed out. Firewire was amazing. So much faster than USB, daisy-chained devices and enough power to drive 3.5" drives without needing a power adapter.

>>58366289
Thank you for this info.
I have been shitting my self quite a bit because I didn't where I could get those SAS hdd (ebay and such)

>>58366328
This, and it was even better if you had multiple Macs
>firmware update requires Mac OS X 10.3.9
>have Mac OS X 10.5.8 installed
>iMac has 10.3.9
>plub firewire cable into both machines
>boot from iMac's HDD on PowerMac

>HDD in iMac dies, too lazy to replace it
>put SSD in old BlackBook
>use MacBook as big external boot drive till I stop being too lazy to crack the iMac open

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>>58366136
...and then your motherboard had jumpers too

>>58366136
I'm only 19 and I remember having to use those. I was also a bit on the poor side, so I may have used computers older than most people my age.

I still feel like PCI-E and SATA are cool new tech and they're pretty old by now. I spent a long time with AGP and IDE stuff.

>>58365167
I literally have the same exact shit. Not a good use of the $200 or so it costed.

>>58363574
Joystick for the Apple 2 line of computers. Had one for my 2c.

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Heart rate sensor on the Samsung Galaxy S7. Forgot it even exists. I'd rather it not exist. Not because it would add anything to the phone, but because that's how insignificant it is to me. I'd rather NOT have it than to have it just in case. What's worse is that S Health is the only thing that uses it. Google Fit, last I checked, can't work with it. Even though it asks for permission to use it. Actually, the whole phone is gay. Fuck TouchWiz.

Most features in Windows.

Disk drive. It's actually unplugged. Has no purpose, but can't remove it physically because it'll leave an open hole in my case. Last time I used it was to install my genuine shiny copy of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit. After that... it's just been USB. Flash drives is all you'd ever need. They can be reused and adapted to anything. And even then they serve little purpose because everything is digital now.

My speakers. I use them as an amplifier for my headphones as plugging in directly to the computer doesn't produce enough volume.

Xbox One. Waste of money. Useless piece of shit. I don't play video games, but I thought it would be a good Netflix machine. Could have just gotten a second monitor and Chromecast... Fucking idiot. Last time it was turned on what January 5, 2016. Actually, I recently threw it away. So maybe it doesn't count.

Does Internet Explorer count? Literally only use it once to install Google Chrome.

>>58366136
Oh my God... I forgot about this. That was the most annoying shit ever. Windows wouldn't boot until you configured the stupid ass pins properly. Thank God for SATA. Forgot that nightmare. GOD FORBID YOU LOST THE LITTLE PIN....

>>58366328
>and enough power to drive 3.5" drives without needing a power adapter.

That seems like a good enough reason to use it now if you can get a firewire to SATA adapter

>>58363349
I waited years to use bluetooth but it's pretty nifty once you get the hang of it. I have to use it to get photos off of my shitty tracfone. Before I never used the camera because getting it to be recognized through USB was a pain.

>>58367113
>Thank God for SATA
I'm not sure if they fixed anything, but it wasn't unheard of the plastic peice that the golden fingers rest of breaking off with sata when the drives first came out

The SATA interface is much much better of course, but I feel like it could have been engineered to be a bit more robust
>The eSATA connector has a design-life of 5,000 matings; the ordinary SATA connector is only specified for 50.

My motherboard supports those little case speakers for the bios POST but I never actually used it

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>>58363506
>>58363681
I don't understand why using RF controllers never took off. This thing was amazing. Bluetooth is shit and drains battery like starved cockslut.

>>58367442
Xbox 360 used RF but it was still 2.4ghz and had bad battery life. Any controller using 2.4ghz is going to have shit battery life. Something like 900mhz would give a boost to battery life.

>>58367442
>Bluetooth
>not RF
wat

>>58367524
More like
>RF not bluetooth

>>58367113
>GOD FORBID YOU LOST THE LITTLE PIN....
The jumper? That's happened to me multiple times, it's a nonissue.

>esata
>firewire

have a couple of external harddrives and my previous desktop had esata but never used any of those.

>>58364340
used that to connect WD TV Live to my sound system and another to connect my PS3 to the same sound system.

>>58362924
Probably nothing. Used everything in some way or another.

>>58362924
DVD drive. Unplugged it to make room for an SSD (don't have enough SATA cables)
Firewire 800 port on my laptop. Used to use FW all the time, but the one hard drive I have that has a FW port died.
Playstation 2 and Wii. Mostly because I have a decent PC now.

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>>58363485

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>>58362924

>>58367442
Playing Duck Hunt was so shit. No thanks.

>>58367994
>used that to connect WD TV Live to my sound system and another to connect my PS3 to the same sound system.
>tfw have the EXACT same setup
god tier anon

esata
displayport
>>58363485
this too
>>58363703
Underage much?

>>58365209
They are much louder and the SAS controllers sometimes don't have proper SMART data passthrough. Also boot times are often longer with the SAS controller enabled

>>58371074
This.

>>58365341
>SAS SSDs
Literally not worth it. Either get a sata one or go for NVMe/PCIe

>>58371083
What the fuck has RF got to do with duck hunt and its associated light gun..?

>>58365961
>a standard interface that just werks is trash, I will go with something that is not compatible with most computers and eSATA ports or use 2 cables
kek

>>58366400
>Plus
Kek

>>58367113
Underage b& or just retarded?

>>58366193
Well then you should probably upgrade your hardware soon

eSATA ports/cables
PS2 cables

>>58371763
>PS2 cables
How?

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>>58366193
>>58366179
>>58366136
> Be rebuilding pic related
> Two HDD's installed so I can back a drive the intended primary drive before paving over it with freedos
> Complete backup, remove second drive, reassemble everything
> Completely forget to reset jumper from slave to master on the drive I wanted to build.
> Jumper is on bottom side of HDD, need to tear the thing down again and remove HDD from its cage to change

It made me smile to know that literally 15 years on since I have touched hardware of this era, I'm still making the same retarded mistakes that I was back in the day. At least I have now worked out the correct orientation of non-keyed IDE and floppy cables. Used to shit me spending time getting muh ribbons sitting all nice and flat, only to realise I had shit back to front.

>>58362924
My computers CD drive hasnt seen a disk in 5 years.

>>58362924

I used firewire today. I'm a special snowflake.

>>58371915
>2017
>still having a cd drive

bro I don't even have regular USB-A ports. They're so outdated.
USB-C is all you need these days

>>58371992
I build it back in 2011, though something like "gee, those blueray movies look awesome, surely the prices will come down...". I have yet to see a blueray movie.

>>58365136
First of all you dont need a case one S6/S7 (aslo edge) and it has fast charging which is the same speed as regular wire charging

>>58363592
>>58363640
I used to use mine all the time to watch Blu-ray movies, it's the sole reason I had once since I didn't want to buy a player or a PS3.

It's a Sony branded one which doesn't work anymore, I don't know if it's to do with only working with shitty ass CyberLink player software which you are forced to upgrade to use, or possible a borked firmware update (although it can read disks fine).

>>58362924
I just got rid of my 2004 Mitsubishi 1080i rear projection tv. Interestingly it had FireWire in and out ports and the old HD cable boxes had them as well.

>>58363485
My first digital camera had that format.

...

And that's about as special as it was.

>>58366136
Bane of my pre-2014 existence

>>58371475
Firewire is indeed designed after the gameboy link cable, because the thing was so satisfying to use.

>>58364340
>shit
why shit? using it to connect my amp to my PC. even a fuckin 5m long cable works with zero problems

>>58364340
It's very useful, though. The optical transmission prevents any noise from entering the stream.

>>58362924
MSMD Duo reader

I have it in all my card readers but not once have i had a chance to use it.

>>58375821
>The optical transmission prevents any noise from entering the stream.
yeah, no. TOSLINK has more interference than e.g. RCA, because keeping a clock synced on an optical signal is harder than you think