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Title: External Drive Enclosure Question
Post by: johnw on July 05, 2004, 09:51:44 PM
Our desktop finally died tonight and I was going to replace it, but my wife prefers using the laptop and we are broke. In order to get the data off the drive, I was going to pick up an external enclosure off newegg. I was wondering if it would be possible to buy two and use one for the hard drive and the other for a dvdrw drive? The laptop has 2 USB ports and we have a PCMCIA firewire card. I was thinking of connecting both enclosures via firewire to the card, but don't know if the transfer rate from the external hard drive would be fast enough to keep up with the external dvd burner - especially since the firewire is going through the PCMCIA card. I could also connect one or both enclosures via USB, but this would be slower I think?
Title: Re: External Drive Enclosure Question
Post by: JNT on July 05, 2004, 10:37:14 PM
Quote from: johnw on July 05, 2004, 09:51:44 PM
Our desktop finally died tonight and I was going to replace it, but my wife prefers using the laptop and we are broke. In order to get the data off the drive, I was going to pick up an external enclosure off newegg. I was wondering if it would be possible to buy two and use one for the hard drive and the other for a dvdrw drive? The laptop has 2 USB ports and we have a PCMCIA firewire card. I was thinking of connecting both enclosures via firewire to the card, but don't know if the transfer rate from the external hard drive would be fast enough to keep up with the external dvd burner - especially since the firewire is going through the PCMCIA card. I could also connect one or both enclosures via USB, but this would be slower I think?

I've used external harddrive enclosures for a while now.  They were painfully slow using USB 1 but I haven't had any problems since I upgradded to USB 2.  Results with firewire should be similar.

Joe
Title: Re: External Drive Enclosure Question
Post by: John Kelly on July 05, 2004, 11:20:22 PM
Quote from: JNT on July 05, 2004, 10:37:14 PM
I've used external harddrive enclosures for a while now.  They were painfully slow using USB 1 but I haven't had any problems since I upgradded to USB 2.  Results with firewire should be similar better.

Joe

Fixed your quote. ;)
Title: Re: External Drive Enclosure Question
Post by: JNT on July 05, 2004, 11:38:57 PM
Quote from: John Kelly not Kelley on July 05, 2004, 11:20:22 PM

Fixed your quote. ;)

Trouble maker! ;D
Title: Re: External Drive Enclosure Question
Post by: John Kelly on July 06, 2004, 12:22:08 AM
;D

Although it is true.  Firewire has a higher sustained transfer rate, while USB2 theoretically can burst higher.