I have a USB 2.0 Buslink hard drive, and although the drive's internal speed is faster than my internal EIDE drive (7200RPM vs 5200RPM, or thereabouts), in action it is only about half as fast, according to my CD writing software's data transfer tests. Although USB 2.0 is far faster than 1.1, it is still a bottleneck (and it is certainly not 40 times faster than USB 1.1, at least in terms of data transfer from an internal to the external drive). I keep my "working" files on my internal drive, and keep files I will be accessing less frequently on the external drive. Once I start to fill up the external drive, I'll offload the even-less-frequently-used files to CDs.
If you get a USB drive, get the biggest one you can afford. It is amazingly easy to generate a gigabyte of Photoshop files in a very short time. - David -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 10:52 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [filmscanners] Slightly OT: Hard Drive Speed In anticipation of obtaining Photoshop I was wondering about hard drive speed. In particular, I was wondering if getting a USB 2.0 card and an external USB 2.0 Hard Drive would be significantly faster than working off of a partition on my internal EIDE drive. Don't know nearly as much as you folks about hardware, so I hope this question is not a ridiculous one. I guess you will let me know if it is :>) Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------ Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe by mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], with 'unsubscribe filmscanners' or 'unsubscribe filmscanners_digest' (as appropriate) in the message title or body
