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Localhost
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| Humper wrote: | If you buy an external drive, you could buy a case instead as they say.
You will find it abit slow (due e-sata is slower) but I still suggest internal drive. |
False.
Internal Hard Drives that are using SATA
have the same exact speed as an
External Hard Drive that is using eSata.
eSATA speed = SATA speed
No difference except eSATA is external and eSATA has a different cable.
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eSATA bandwidth = SATA bandwidth (3Gb/s).
But problem is that is mobo is 5 years old, so it probably doesn't have eSATA. He will have to use USB 2.0 (480Mb/s), which is 60MB/s. All 7,200 RPM HDDs can hit 60MB/s. I recommend getting an internal hard drive because it's around 50% faster than an external one using USB 2.0.
Again, the price is the same.
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| rapion124 wrote: | eSATA bandwidth = SATA bandwidth (3Gb/s).
But problem is that is mobo is 5 years old, so it probably doesn't have eSATA. He will have to use USB 2.0 (480Mb/s), which is 60MB/s. All 7,200 RPM HDDs can hit 60MB/s. I recommend getting an internal hard drive because it's around 50% faster than an external one using USB 2.0.
Again, the price is the same. |
Most external enclosures (ones that come without the internal hard drive) usually come with eSATA brackets.
That means if the inside of your computer has ONE open SATA port, it can easily be converted to eSATA.
You put the bracket in the back of your computer.
You connect the SATA cable from the onboard SATA port to the back of the eSATA bracket.
Done.
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eSATA + External hard drives are the way to go.
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| Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 5:39 am Post subject: |
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| Well if you have music/movies maybe you could transfer all of that to an external HDD. If not internal.
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Lol that site is for Canada even though im from Australia!
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| localhost wrote: | | rapion124 wrote: | eSATA bandwidth = SATA bandwidth (3Gb/s).
But problem is that is mobo is 5 years old, so it probably doesn't have eSATA. He will have to use USB 2.0 (480Mb/s), which is 60MB/s. All 7,200 RPM HDDs can hit 60MB/s. I recommend getting an internal hard drive because it's around 50% faster than an external one using USB 2.0.
Again, the price is the same. |
Most external enclosures (ones that come without the internal hard drive) usually come with eSATA brackets.
That means if the inside of your computer has ONE open SATA port, it can easily be converted to eSATA.
You put the bracket in the back of your computer.
You connect the SATA cable from the onboard SATA port to the back of the eSATA bracket.
Done.
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eSATA + External hard drives are the way to go. |
Correct, and if it doesn't come with a bracket they can be purchased separately for almost nothing.
Also, while external drives on USB2.0 are slower, that's not that big of a deal for storage, ~30MB/s is plenty.
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