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    Fastest Possible Portable Storage Media

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by cohowap, Mar 9, 2011.

  1. cohowap

    cohowap Notebook Consultant

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    Ok, I'll try to explain my situation.

    I'm a developer and constantly code between 2 computers. A Dell 6410 and a Asus G73JH. My problem is I develop in virtual environments (VMWare, Virtual Box etc) so my images can reach 20-30gb each. Right now I am using an eternal hard drive, but being spoiled by a new SSD I got for my G73, I decided to look for a better way to run my dev images.

    So that brings me to the question, whats the fastest portable media I can pop in both of these. Neither has USB, the dell has a pcmcia slot, both have estat slots.

    Right now, I'm trying to find a 128GB esata thumb drive, but seems esata thumb drives never cought on enough for someone to make a 128GB one.

    So whats you ideas to get SSD performance, or at least better than external USB2 performance from this?

    Thanks!

    EDIT: On second notice, the G73 doesn't have a esata...
     
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  2. HTWingNut

    HTWingNut Potato

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    You could get an eSATA or USB 3.0 enclosure and put an SSD in it, but eSATA is limited to SATA I (150 Gbps). If you have a lot of large files then a traditional hard drive may come close to saturating that bus as it is.

    Thumb drives are slower than hard drives anyhow.
     
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  3. cohowap

    cohowap Notebook Consultant

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    I dont have large file transfers, but neither have USB 3.0 slots.
     
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    2.0 Former NBR Macro-Mod®

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    Gigabit ethernet transfers will be able to transfer at up to 125 MB/s. Expect to see perhaps around 80 MB/s. Consider something that can utilize ethernet.

    The other alternative is eSATA enclosure like a Rocketfish AHD-25. You can find lots of them on ebay for $10-$12 shipped.
     
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  5. User Retired 2

    User Retired 2 Notebook Nobel Laureate NBR Reviewer

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    G73JH has no facility to plug in anything better than USB 2.0. So your choices to get a data stream into it are:

    1. use a network to transfer data

    2. remove the sata optical drives on both systems and then swap in a generic 9.5mm sata-sata optical bay caddy from newmodeus. The G73JH has a 12.7mm tall drive but a 9.5mm caddy used in a E6410 would work in it.

    3. Use the G73JH's additional drive bay to hang a loose sata-sata or sata-esata lead for external connection as discussed.
     
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