Internal or External

Aruffell

Aruffell

Aruffell

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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 :D

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

Internal?
External USB?
External Firewire?

Thanks,

Andy
 
Aruffell said:
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 :D
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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.
 
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 :D? lol

Andy
 
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? :p
 
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