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Cables+Adapter for external HDDs? Which HDDs are good today?
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Last year, I ordered and used "Vantec CB-ISATAU2 SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter Supports 2.5-Inch, 3.5-Inch, 5.25-Inch Hard Disk Drives" from Amazon: http://amazon.com/gp/product/B000J01...00_i00_details .... It worked well for HDDs I used to connect to computers with their USB ports. However, USB is slow due to USB2 speed. Is there another one that can handle USB3, Firewire, ESATA, etc. on the computers' external ports to be faster? Also, what good big brands and models of HDDs to buy these days for external purposes without buying external HDDs and enclosures. I will need over six TB of storage so I assume 2/3 TB per drive for Windows XP and higher? All of these purchases are preferred to be on cdw.com if possible. Thank you in advance. -- Happy Chinese New Year (Dragon)! ^-^ /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. If crediting, ( ) then please kindly use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. |
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Cables+Adapter for external HDDs? Which HDDs are good today?
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wrote: Hello. Last year, I ordered and used "Vantec CB-ISATAU2 SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter Supports 2.5-Inch, 3.5-Inch, 5.25-Inch Hard Disk Drives" from Amazon: http://amazon.com/gp/product/B000J01...00_i00_details ... It worked well for HDDs I used to connect to computers with their USB ports. However, USB is slow due to USB2 speed. Is there another one that can handle USB3, Firewire, ESATA, etc. on the computers' external ports to be faster? Also, what good big brands and models of HDDs to buy these days for external purposes without buying external HDDs and enclosures. I will need over six TB of storage so I assume 2/3 TB per drive for Windows XP and higher? All of these purchases are preferred to be on cdw.com if possible. Thank you in advance. There is this one from Other World Computing: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/NewerTech/U3NVSPATA/ -- Jim Gibson |
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Cables+Adapter for external HDDs? Which HDDs are good today?
Ant wrote:
Last year, I ordered and used "Vantec CB-ISATAU2 SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter Supports 2.5-Inch, 3.5-Inch, 5.25-Inch Hard Disk Drives" from Amazon: http://amazon.com/gp/product/B000J01...00_i00_details ... It worked well for HDDs I used to connect to computers with their USB ports. However, USB is slow due to USB2 speed. Yeah, USB2 is surprisingly slow when you are used to SATA speeds. Is there another one that can handle USB3, Firewire, ESATA, etc. on the computers' external ports to be faster? Yep, plenty of them support esata as well as USB2 and and some do support USB3 now. Both arent anything like as common on the computer tho. Also, what good big brands and models of HDDs to buy these days for external purposes without buying external HDDs and enclosures. Dunno, dont bother with that route myself. I will need over six TB of storage so I assume 2/3 TB per drive for Windows XP and higher? There are plenty of NAS systems around now that do that total capacity fine. They arent cheap tho, they cost more than one of the 2TB drives, even now that the 2TB drives have hiked due to the floods in Thailand. All of these purchases are preferred to be on cdw.com if possible. |
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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Ant wrote:
Hello. Last year, I ordered and used "Vantec CB-ISATAU2 SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter Supports 2.5-Inch, 3.5-Inch, 5.25-Inch Hard Disk Drives" from Amazon: http://amazon.com/gp/product/B000J01...00_i00_details ... It worked well for HDDs I used to connect to computers with their USB ports. However, USB is slow due to USB2 speed. Is there another one that can handle USB3, Firewire, ESATA, etc. on the computers' external ports to be faster? Also, what good big brands and models of HDDs to buy these days for external purposes without buying external HDDs and enclosures. I will need over six TB of storage so I assume 2/3 TB per drive for Windows XP and higher? All of these purchases are preferred to be on cdw.com if possible. Thank you in advance. I have no idea about your source, but the by far best bargain here is the WD 3TB UDB3.0 external drives. You basically get the enclosure for free and the disk price is very reasonable when compared to smaller drives. I happen to have several of them, and as long as you operate them lying down (add 4 rubber feet on the side), they are perfectly fine. Arno -- Arno Wagner, Dr. sc. techn., Dipl. Inform., CISSP -- Email: GnuPG: ID: 1E25338F FP: 0C30 5782 9D93 F785 E79C 0296 797F 6B50 1E25 338F ---- Cuddly UI's are the manifestation of wishful thinking. -- Dylan Evans |
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Cables+Adapter for external HDDs? Which HDDs are good today?
Last year, I ordered and used "Vantec CB-ISATAU2 SATA/IDE to USB 2.0
Adapter Supports 2.5-Inch, 3.5-Inch, 5.25-Inch Hard Disk Drives" from Amazon: http://amazon.com/gp/product/B000J01...00_i00_details ... It worked well for HDDs I used to connect to computers with their USB ports. However, USB is slow due to USB2 speed. Is there another one that can handle USB3, Firewire, ESATA, etc. on the computers' external ports to be faster? Also, what good big brands and models of HDDs to buy these days for external purposes without buying external HDDs and enclosures. I will need over six TB of storage so I assume 2/3 TB per drive for Windows XP and higher? All of these purchases are preferred to be on cdw.com if possible. Thank you in advance. There is this one from Other World Computing: http://eshop.macsales.com/item/NewerTech/U3NVSPATA/ Thanks. -- Happy Chinese New Year (Dragon)! ^-^ /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. If crediting, ( ) then please kindly use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. |
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Cables+Adapter for external HDDs? Which HDDs are good today?
Last year, I ordered and used "Vantec CB-ISATAU2 SATA/IDE to USB 2.0
Adapter Supports 2.5-Inch, 3.5-Inch, 5.25-Inch Hard Disk Drives" from Amazon: http://amazon.com/gp/product/B000J01...00_i00_details ... It worked well for HDDs I used to connect to computers with their USB ports. However, USB is slow due to USB2 speed. Yeah, USB2 is surprisingly slow when you are used to SATA speeds. Yeah especially when dealing with many TB of datas. Is there another one that can handle USB3, Firewire, ESATA, etc. on the computers' external ports to be faster? Yep, plenty of them support esata as well as USB2 and and some do support USB3 now. Both arent anything like as common on the computer tho. Yeah, but it would be nice to have if they do! Also, what good big brands and models of HDDs to buy these days for external purposes without buying external HDDs and enclosures. Dunno, dont bother with that route myself. I will need over six TB of storage so I assume 2/3 TB per drive for Windows XP and higher? There are plenty of NAS systems around now that do that total capacity fine. Are they portable and light to travel with? -- Happy Chinese New Year (Dragon)! ^-^ /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. If crediting, ( ) then please kindly use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. |
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Cables+Adapter for external HDDs? Which HDDs are good today?
Last year, I ordered and used "Vantec CB-ISATAU2 SATA/IDE to USB 2.0
Adapter Supports 2.5-Inch, 3.5-Inch, 5.25-Inch Hard Disk Drives" from Amazon: http://amazon.com/gp/product/B000J01...00_i00_details ... It worked well for HDDs I used to connect to computers with their USB ports. However, USB is slow due to USB2 speed. Is there another one that can handle USB3, Firewire, ESATA, etc. on the computers' external ports to be faster? Also, what good big brands and models of HDDs to buy these days for external purposes without buying external HDDs and enclosures. I will need over six TB of storage so I assume 2/3 TB per drive for Windows XP and higher? All of these purchases are preferred to be on cdw.com if possible. Thank you in advance. Seagate has a single 4TB drive sold only in their external USB3 case (for now, anyway--part of their GoFlex series)--so you would only need two of them to exceed your minimum capacity needs. I suspect production is limited due to the Thai flooding, but that should be resolved later in 2012. The GoFlex boxes have optional connectors with different ports--all connectable one drive. They also have 2TB and 3TB capacities (3TB is $200, I think--CDW sells it also). 4TB GoFlex/USB3 (with USB3) card from CDW: http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/Fre...0/2501675.aspx Oh wow, they finally 4 TB. I remember they were stuck with 2 and 3 TB. -- Happy Chinese New Year (Dragon)! ^-^ /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail. If crediting, ( ) then please kindly use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. |
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Cables+Adapter for external HDDs? Which HDDs are good today?
Ant wrote:
Last year, I ordered and used "Vantec CB-ISATAU2 SATA/IDE to USB 2.0 Adapter Supports 2.5-Inch, 3.5-Inch, 5.25-Inch Hard Disk Drives" from Amazon: http://amazon.com/gp/product/B000J01...00_i00_details ... It worked well for HDDs I used to connect to computers with their USB ports. However, USB is slow due to USB2 speed. Yeah, USB2 is surprisingly slow when you are used to SATA speeds. Yeah especially when dealing with many TB of datas. Is there another one that can handle USB3, Firewire, ESATA, etc. on the computers' external ports to be faster? Yep, plenty of them support esata as well as USB2 and and some do support USB3 now. Both arent anything like as common on the computer tho. Yeah, but it would be nice to have if they do! Also, what good big brands and models of HDDs to buy these days for external purposes without buying external HDDs and enclosures. Dunno, dont bother with that route myself. I will need over six TB of storage so I assume 2/3 TB per drive for Windows XP and higher? There are plenty of NAS systems around now that do that total capacity fine. Are they portable and light to travel with? No, significantly worse than normal external housings;. Not clear if you actually need the whole 6TB in the one box or whether a couple of 3TB boxes would do. There arent too many external boxes that can do 6TB with all the 3 common interface protocols, USB2, USB3 and esata. |
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Cables+Adapter for external HDDs? Which HDDs are good today?
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:16:27 -0600, (Ant)
wrote: 4TB GoFlex/USB3 (with USB3) card from CDW: http://www.cdw.com/shop/products/Fre...0/2501675.aspx Oh wow, they finally 4 TB. I remember they were stuck with 2 and 3 TB. They have been out for well over 6-9 months. However, they have never (as yet) been offered as bare drives. They fell to $199 (the 4TB GoFlex) for one week at MicroCenter before the floods, then popped back to normal pricing. So, I would say it is just a matter of time now before the drives start hitting the market in volume. I would not be surprised if drives under 1TB were eliminated as 1TB seems to be the new low-cost entry point. |
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