eSata External

V For Vendetta · 6 May 2007 at 07:12

I use to have a desktop PC I remember why drives shifted from IDE to SATA, their was a slight speed bump, but hardly a huge increase.

Thing is now Im in the market for an External Hardrive

my question is will an eSata really provide that much speed say over a Firewire 800?

Borden · 6 May 2007 at 09:41

Yes because a drive conencted via eSATA is making use of the full SATA bandwidth and so sustained read/write speeds will be much higher.

V For Vendetta · 6 May 2007 at 15:22

thanx

what speeds read write are we talking

Borden · 6 May 2007 at 15:48

That depends on the drive you're using but it should perform exactly the same as if it were plugged in internally using SATA. It should definately be faster than firewire.