Need some help!

[Carl21]

Hi all,

Well, at the moment I have 3 HDD's

• IDE - 40gb / 2mb cache

• IDE - 60gb / 2mb cache (These are combined into one, so windows see's them as one HDD)


• SATA - 40gb / 2mb cache (Use this one for my OS)


I'm running out of storage, and want to get more, I've seen a lot of them External USB drives, one that caught my eye was the 300gb, 16mb cache made by Envizage.

Problem is, I have no idea about HDD's, my first thought about USB drives was that they would be slow than IDE/SATA? Is there any cons in getting an External USB or am I better off getting an internal?

Any help appreciated, ta.

 

[smids]

USB drives are indeed slower than IDE/SATA with a max transfer rate of about 45MB/s but usually averaging about 30-35MB/s. This compared with a normal drive transfer of about 55-60MB/s is slower but USB drives are excellent for normal storage of photo's/videos/music. The work perfectly fine for this.
I've never heard of Evizage, so I would suggest googling and finding out which drive they use for their drives. Alternatively, I would suggest building your own, by buying a caddy and IDE drive for yourself. This often works out cheaper (sometimes not so) but you choose quality components yourself like Seagate drives.