I don't think transfer speeds are relevant with external vs internal. USB 2.0 is fast enough that the drive itself is the bottleneck, not the interface.
Now, get an SSD, and you may see a difference, but as far as I know, the speed of the drive itself is slower than SATA or USB 2.0.
Correct me if I'm wrong.
Depending on the drives, USB2.0 is the bottleneck. I have 3 WD 1TB Black drives, just happen to have one in a My Book enclosure since I ran out of space inside my pc.
I get sustained 100+MB/s transfers on the internal Black Drives and upto 88MB/s on the external. The transfer speed goes down when you are transferring a lot of smaller files.
It just happens I was using a FreeAgent Go also when I decided to get this. This is my video and in part 2 I show you some tests between USB and eSATA.
It's a Rosewill RX-358-S External Enclosure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg1qp52MJJQ
I LOVE it and you can put a 1.5 or 2TB drive in it.
The USB 2.0 spec is 480 megabits per second max. Thus, 480 megabits per second, divided by 8 bits to a byte = 60,000,000 bytes per second. However, I have never witnessed USB 2.0 running anywhere close to 100% max...it's at best about 60%. So, about 36MB/s is the best that you get. An internal drive will run 2x faster than that...or more.
Seems like a very good option, especially since I have two WD Raptor drives available to use but I believe that it is 500gigs total with the 2 if I remember correctly which isn't much when you just have one.
I have a mid-tower case which has two drives in it already, it has room for 4 but I'm afraid with the way it is configured with the graphics card haveing 4 would disrupt the airflow. Due to the location of installation on the motherboard for the graphics card it leaves about an inch of space between the top of the hard drive cage and the end of the graphics card which is a EVGA Geforce 9800 GX2. If any of that makes any sense. I could take pics if it doesn't to show. I should have gotten a high tower probably to begin with but I didn't see the point if I was only running 1 graphics card?pparks1 said:
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What looks like the best option thus far?
Thanks,
-Lollies
What would be a good drive to accompany the Rosewill RX-358-S External Enclosure? I'd like a 500g-1TB of space. In my comp I have 2 WD veloci-raptors.
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For an external would Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive be efficient? I've been looking at WD's drives on newegg.
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