- External drives as compared to Internal drives
- Posted by Paul on February 17th, 2005
I have recently bought a new Tiny Mediabook U64-3700+ of which I am
awaiting delivery. The one drawback on this system that may affect me
is the Fujitsu/Toshiba Hard Disk with minimum Ultra ATA/100 interface,
4200rpm speed, 12 ms Access time, 80GB capacity and 1MB Buffer. If I
bought an external drive with 7200rpm and connected it via a usb2
connection would this perform better?
- Posted by jakdedert on February 17th, 2005
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No.
jak
- Posted by Lisa Horton on February 17th, 2005
jakdedert wrote:
Based on my experience, yes. My external drives (7200rpm, 8MB cache,
USB2) are faster than my internal laptop drive (4200rpm) for large file
intensive activities.
Lisa
- Posted by Paul on February 18th, 2005
Thanks for replying.
The biggest use of the harddrive will be storing wave files that will
have to be accessed from music applications such as cool edit pro or
Reason. Is this a similar idea to what u have used your external drives
for e.g. media software
Paul
- Posted by Lisa Horton on February 18th, 2005
Paul wrote:
My use is digital imaging. The files range from 6.5MB to a peak size of
about 35MB, and I often do batch manipulations. So, my results are
really pertinent only to applications involving larger file sizes. You
may not see the same benefits if your file sizes are a lot smaller.
Lisa
