On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 04:59:47PM -0700, Larry Colen scripsit: > 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?
eSATA. No practical difference between that and a SATA drive in the case in terms of reading and writing. Some benefit (different power supplies) in reliability terms. If you have to go through USB2, ick, sluggish, yes, but a Mac that doesn't have eSATA ought to have Firewire. All drives fail; minimum useful resiliency is three (3) copies on different spindles, preferably different cases and power supplies, too. -- Graydon -- 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.
