Internal or External

[Aruffell]

Not sure why but i've always wanted an external drive, maybe because i think they look cool having a block on my desk with a big light on it

Either way, what would be faster as i'm looking at getting a 1tb, possibly 2tb drive?

Internal?
External USB?
External Firewire?

Thanks,

Andy

 

[bsoltan]

Consider eSata if your motherboard has the ability.

 

[jak731]

do you have esata

 

[fobose]

Not sure why but i've always wanted an external drive, maybe because i think they look cool having a block on my desk with a big light on it

Dont even go there. My bro really wanted an external drive so I bought him an icybox with a 500GB seagate, it sits on his desk turned off 99.9% of the time, with a huge power brick to go with it.

I also wanted an external drive so I bought a 320GB 2.5" drive, and I never used it in any other way that I would have if it was internal! Now I use it in my laptop as its faster than the one that came with it.

So I would suggest to go internal, and only go external if you actually want to move large amount of files to different locations. Otherwise just get a cheap 8GB pen drive.

 

[Aruffell]

I will from time to time plug it to my laptop or if i can connect it through my gigabit lan then even better.

My motherboard is a DFI NF4 Ultra SLI-DR, so not sure about esata? What is it ? lol

Andy

 

[Major_Disaster]

Go eSata definitely.

 

[esK`]

e-sata is a sata port on your mainboard that is external !

 

[ticktock]

I had an external but then decided to put the HD inside the pc. Pleased i did that.

 

[bledd]

usb2 is limited to around 30mb/s transfer rate
esata is the same speed as an internal sata connector (full drive speed)


icybox 390 + whatever sata hard drive.

should use it for backups, not for 'flashy lights on the desk'


maybe you need a christmas tree?