ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:I'd imagine RAID5 with 5 disks would be 3 drives + 2 parity, though I haven't checked.

Realised that was RAID6, and they use interleaved parity.

Psyko12 Wrote:About damn time you get an external HDD. For your pirated backupz and "picz"

What's wrong with internal?

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:

Psyko12 Wrote:About damn time you get an external HDD. For your pirated backupz and "picz"

What's wrong with internal?

I'd be supporting the idea of an External drive but not so much anymore..

I found the write speeds via USB 2.0 to be just torturous..

Senseito7 Wrote:I found the write speeds via USB 2.0 to be just torturous..

E-sata works too (if you don't have a port, you could always wire something out, lol).
Just that external HDDs cost more, and have a higher likelihood of breaking if you tend to knock stuff off tables.
Also, different from RAID as it doesn't provide redundancy.

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:

Senseito7 Wrote:I found the write speeds via USB 2.0 to be just torturous..

E-sata works too (if you don't have a port, you could always wire something out, lol).
Just that external HDDs cost more, and have a higher likelihood of breaking if you tend to knock stuff off tables.
Also, different from RAID as it doesn't provide redundancy.

Yeah, my lappy has eSATA, actually.. but it also has panels on its back to allow easy upgrading... and two 500GB drives seems like a tasty upgrade.

Senseito7 Wrote:

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:

Senseito7 Wrote:I found the write speeds via USB 2.0 to be just torturous..

E-sata works too (if you don't have a port, you could always wire something out, lol).
Just that external HDDs cost more, and have a higher likelihood of breaking if you tend to knock stuff off tables.
Also, different from RAID as it doesn't provide redundancy.

Yeah, my lappy has eSATA, actually.. but it also has panels on its back to allow easy upgrading... and two 500GB drives seems like a tasty upgrade.

mmm....OCZ makes eSata flash drives now ... like a usb stick, but instead of a usb plug it is an eSata plug.  

by the way the drive that i originally replaced also flaked out when repairing..then i put in another new one and eventually all is good now :)

(This post was last modified: 29/01/2010 04:34 AM by SchmilK.)

SchmilK Wrote:

Senseito7 Wrote:

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:

Senseito7 Wrote:I found the write speeds via USB 2.0 to be just torturous..

E-sata works too (if you don't have a port, you could always wire something out, lol).
Just that external HDDs cost more, and have a higher likelihood of breaking if you tend to knock stuff off tables.
Also, different from RAID as it doesn't provide redundancy.

Yeah, my lappy has eSATA, actually.. but it also has panels on its back to allow easy upgrading... and two 500GB drives seems like a tasty upgrade.

mmm....OCZ makes eSata flash drives now ... like a usb stick, but instead of a usb plug it is an eSata plug.  

by the way the drive that i originally replaced also flaked out when repairing..then i put in another new one and eventually all is good now :)

Does look tasty..

OCZ 32GB Throttle eSATA Flash Drive by OCZ (Electronics - 28 Jul 2009)
Buy new: £79.81 (Amazon.co.uk)

US reviews aren't so hot though..

Besides what desktops have eSATA :/

Most USB flash drives can't even saturate USB 2.0.  No point in anything faster until wee get faster USB drives... >_>