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Louse76 said:USB 2.0 is already faster than the read/write of the hard drive, so don't expect any significant changes with 3.0. No reason to wait.
exactly.
plus you'd have to have a USB 3.0 motherboard to take advantage of the speeds, which don't exist yet. Asus might be the first out of the gate with the P6X58.
I wouldnt be so quick to discount USB 3. About the best you can get from a USB 2 external drive (~20-25M) is about 1/3 of the best rate you can get from eSata (60-70M. USB 2.0's 480M isnt even close to being fully realized in a single device to device transfer.
USB 3's superspeed full duplex mode and higher transfer rates allegedly give a 10x speed improvement over USB 2, but I'd expect it to be closer to esata's throughput.
So, it might very well be worth waiting for in conjunction with drives in the 500-750GB+ range. It takes one heck of a long time to fill one of those up with a USB 2 connection. I've already gone to eSata and even with that it takes some time with drives in the 1-2TB range.
timswim78 said:What type of drive is in these? I'm thinking about buying it for the drive, if it is a decent drive.
I'm wondering the same thing about what kind of hard drive these have in them. I'm looking at a Security Digital Video Recorder for closed circuit TV and the Digital Recorder comes without a hard drive but states the Digital Recorder needs an IDE hard drive. So I'm hoping to find a cheap external hard drive with an IDE hard drive inside to remove for the Security Digital Recorder. Any Hope on this. Thanks.
Imjusthappytobehere said:timswim78 said:What type of drive is in these? I'm thinking about buying it for the drive, if it is a decent drive.
I'm wondering the same thing about what kind of hard drive these have in them. I'm looking at a Security Digital Video Recorder for closed circuit TV and the Digital Recorder comes without a hard drive but states the Digital Recorder needs an IDE hard drive. So I'm hoping to find a cheap external hard drive with an IDE hard drive inside to remove for the Security Digital Recorder. Any Hope on this. Thanks.
Chances are very slim that it will be an IDE drive. I'd be very surprised if this did not have any SATA drive inside. I'm curious as to what type of SATA drive that is.
lament said:Louse76 said:USB 2.0 is already faster than the read/write of the hard drive, so don't expect any significant changes with 3.0. No reason to wait.
exactly.
plus you'd have to have a USB 3.0 motherboard to take advantage of the speeds, which don't exist yet. Asus might be the first out of the gate with the P6X58.
your bottleneck is still the read/write speed of the drive. Your want speed. You should get the SSD.
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