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    fastest External HDD u have sign

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by kevinscotland, Jul 5, 2008.

  1. kevinscotland

    kevinscotland Notebook Consultant

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    in firewire and USB format. biggest i've seen is about 5400 RPM.
     
    kevinscotland, Jul 5, 2008
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  2. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    Are you wanting 2.5" or 3.5"?

    The faster 2.5" and all the recent 3.5" HDDs are faster than USB at the slow end and faster than Firewire at the fast end.

    You need eSATA if you want performance.

    A comparison between USB and eSATA transfer rates for the Fujitsu MHZ2320BH 2.5" HDD is in this thread.

    So, it is the enclosure and interface that matters at least as much as the HDD.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Jul 5, 2008
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    TheRealFireblade Notebook Consultant

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    IMO... I own one of the "fastest" external drive solutions available, and that's a standard/internal 7200rpm/32MB cache SATA II drive (mine's a Samsung Spinpoint F1), in an external enclosure (mine's an AC Ryan 'AluBox') with an eSATA connection :cool:

    My 2.5" external drive is similar: A 200GB Seagate Momentus 7200rpm/16MB cache SATA II - again in an AC Ryan 'AluBox' eSATA enclosure ;)
     
    TheRealFireblade, Jul 7, 2008
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