IDE or firewire???
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hey all-do ya think i should put my extra 80gig in the PC or run it in my firewire case?
IDE is faster isnt it?
i have my system on a 10gig then everythign else on a 80gig....peace,
- warheros0
fuck IDE, SATA is taking that over.
use firewire; IEEE 1394
- industry730
depending on your machine.
you probably have an ATA133 IDE connection.ATA133 only runs at 133MB/s
SATA runs at 150MB/s
Firewire (1) runs at 400MB/s
Firewire 800 runs at 800MB/sbut then again you probably have a FW conversion case to plug your HD into, and if your hard drive is ATA133 then it will only run at 133MB/s even through the firewire.
same as in football, you computer is only as fast as it's slowest component. so you could have a Firewire 800 case for your hard drive but your transfer rate is only going to be as fast as your hard drive will go.
so what it comes down to is if your PC has SATA get a SATA HD, if not then it is pure preference as to whether or not you want a portable FW HD or not
- warheros0
you can get a SATA PCI Card so you can use a nice fast SATA HD
=)
- galactor0
What are you talking about?!!
IDE 133 runs at 133 megabytes/ps
SATA runs at 150 megabytes/ps
Firewire runs at 400 megaBITS/PS
Firewire 800 runs at 800 megaBITS / ps
If firewire was faster than internal buses then we wouldn't have internal disks.
A byte is comprised of 8 bits. Therefore, if you multiply 8 by the throughput measured in megabytes then you can compare all of these equally.
Also:
the notation for megabytes is always supposed to be "MB"
and megabits is always "Mb"
- Mick0
Poor old SCSI always gets left out of the game ;)