HDD External Cases (1394 & USB)
Posted: Sun Aug 22, 2004 8:54 pm
any one have any experience with these?
I'm looking at an enclosure for a 3.5" drive. It's got a built in fan, comes with power supply and has BOTH USB 2.0 & firewire 1384 connectors.
I think my 350w Enermax supply may be running at capacity.
4 HDD's, 2 optical drives, numerous PCI cards and 4 80mm fans (2 more in the PS unit). P3 1ghz, 640mb PC133.
One of the drives seems to stall out (no error though) when I try and write something from the optical drive on the same IDE cable.
I figured I can lessen the load on the PSU by going with an external drive and unhooking a fan or two.
What kind of transfer speed do you get with USB 2.0? (I know 480, but how does that relate to say ATA100 speeds?)
The product link. $59.99 CDn after $10 MIR. lets not get get into a debate about MIR's.
I'm looking at an enclosure for a 3.5" drive. It's got a built in fan, comes with power supply and has BOTH USB 2.0 & firewire 1384 connectors.
I think my 350w Enermax supply may be running at capacity.
4 HDD's, 2 optical drives, numerous PCI cards and 4 80mm fans (2 more in the PS unit). P3 1ghz, 640mb PC133.
One of the drives seems to stall out (no error though) when I try and write something from the optical drive on the same IDE cable.
I figured I can lessen the load on the PSU by going with an external drive and unhooking a fan or two.
What kind of transfer speed do you get with USB 2.0? (I know 480, but how does that relate to say ATA100 speeds?)
The product link. $59.99 CDn after $10 MIR. lets not get get into a debate about MIR's.