On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 7:59 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 07:30:37PM -0400, Adam Maas wrote: > >> Oh, and I agree entirely on the external drive issue, love them and >> other than the wall wart issue (they multiply) external drives are >> much easier to deal with than adding internals. Currently running >> 2.7TB of drive space on a system with a 320GB boot drive with 1140GB >> of that in external cases. > > Do you not see performance disadvantages to external drives? >
No, there's little performance difference in real-world use as long as I'm not sticking my scratch disk on an external or making large file transfers. Even streaming HD 720p works fine over USB2. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
