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    External high-end eSATA and Monitor.

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by LLavelle, Jun 17, 2009.

  1. LLavelle

    LLavelle Notebook Evangelist

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    Looking to buy a very large external LCD monitor (30" or bigger).
    Is 2560 x 1600 the max resolution for the FX 3600M ?
    Are there 2560 x 1600 monitors bigger than 30" ?

    Also looking to buy high end RAID 0, 4TB external eSATA.
    My Book Studio Edition II, 4TB, RAID 0, USB, FireWire 400, FireWire 800 and eSATA ($650). But it has 2 x 2TB WD Green HD's that are not that fast.

    Is the Belkin N1 still the leader for wireless range?

    Any suggestions/comments on the above, much appreciated.
     
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  2. ortegaluis

    ortegaluis Notebook Consultant

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    According to NVIDIA, the FX 3600M does in fact support a maximum of 2560x1600.
    I wouldn't be able to offer advice on monitors as I still have an old 17" CRT. And it's a Daewoo. :D
     
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  3. RainMotorsports

    RainMotorsports Formerly ClutchX2

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    As far as the WD's go my 1TB puts out at around 90 MB/s, the 2TB models should be faster and in a raid config much faster. 2x2TB in Raid should atleast max SATA I and push into SATA II speeds.
     
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  4. LLavelle

    LLavelle Notebook Evangelist

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    Review of the Western Digital My Book Studio Edition II at

    http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=5087

    shows ave transfer rate of 106 MB/s which is nowhere near saturating the eSATA 300 MB/s on the M6400.
     
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    RainMotorsports Formerly ClutchX2

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    EDIT - Or the drives really do suck One of them by themselves http://www.techwarelabs.com/wp-content/gallery/western-digital-2tb-green-drive/hd_tune_read.jpg Basically the same speeds as the 1TB.

    I would still expect raid 0 to show a true performance increase not just 25% of the sustainable speed. I knew there was a reason why id rather have mirror'd backup rather then the performance boost j/k. Usually seeing hdtune read straight across something is hitting its max or being bottleneck'd.
     
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