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External hard drive or PCMCIA SATA?
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Post Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 12:18 am   Post subject: External hard drive or PCMCIA SATA? Reply with quote Back to top  
Western Digital My Book Essential Edition External 500GB

Anybody seen a performance comparison on these? Especially if anybody has seen one between this and an internal drive.

I'm curious how they run through the 1394/USB compared to an intenral drive.

On another note anyone anything about the PCMCIA SATA cards? How do they power the drive? Are they any good?

My laptop has a second SATA bay but a 100Gb 7200RPM SATA notebook drive is over $200 but i can get a desktop SATA drive much cheaper, and bigger.

Video encoding/DVR and large picture files from my DSLR is what I want to do, just not sure the best way to go about it.

I just hate to spend the money on an 100Gb internal drive if I can find an external solution that would give the same performance for the same price with a larger drive.

Any input is appreciated guys.
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Post Posted: Mon May 08, 2006 3:12 pm   Post subject: Re: External hard drive or PCMCIA SATA? Reply with quote Back to top  
pdk68 wrote:
On another note anyone anything about the PCMCIA SATA cards? How do they power the drive?

Probably the same way they power other full-sized external drives: fit it in an enclosure with a DC power "brick."

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Post Posted: Thu May 18, 2006 10:44 pm   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
So nobody has used one of these PCMCIA SATA controllers or seen any actual benchmarks of them?
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Post Posted: Fri May 19, 2006 12:16 am   Post subject: Reply with quote Back to top  
I've not looked lately ...
but I haven't seen a good enclosure with a decent fan.
if you get a drive in a box, make sure it is getting air through it.
especially as you have summer coming in up there ...

I've seen two 7200rpm drives in removable caddies that for some reason died !? go figure (wallys)
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