 External Vs Internal Hard Drives, which is better? |
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 Sat 25 Mar 2006, 02:08
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Is there a difference, performance-wise, between your standard internal serial ATA drive and your standard external Firewire drive? I'm assuming similar hard drive specs - I'm more concerned with how the bus effects performance. For example how well would a firewire drive handle a large sample library (5+ GB, at once), reading direct from disk, where it would have to seek out large amounts of info at once?
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Mon 27 Mar 2006, 04:59
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Haha, after trying to find the G5 Drive Bracket company, I came across a G5 mod page... http://www.maxupgrades.com/istore/index.cf...category_id=306Looks like you potentially add up to 9 more hard drives... whether or not I would think that is safe, I wouldn't try... seems like there are potential air flow issues. But supposedly, the G5 Drive Bracket is a great solution for adding three more hard drives. http://www.g5drivebracket.com/I guess you could set up a nice RAID setup for added speed if you bought some more drives and some PCI Raid controllers. It would probably cost you a pretty penny. I would assume $500+ depending on how many drives you would want to install. But that is 3 more SATA drives to your advantage if you really wanna go SATA with everything... *shrug* it was a thought that I once came across. Hope that gives you more ideas! Vale!
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