[filmscanners] RE: Slightly OT: Hard Drive Speed

["M. Denis Hill" <denis@area360.com>]

I understand, also, that RPM is more important that which version ATA your
internal drives are. That is to say ATA66 (if you don't have ATA100) is
probably fine with a 7200 RPM drive, because the disk is more likely to be
the bottleneck than the interface.

M. Denis Hill
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-----Original Message-----
From: filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk
[mailto:filmscanners_owner@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Moreno Polloni
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 9:32 PM
To: denis@area360.com
Subject: [filmscanners] Re: Slightly OT: Hard Drive Speed


>> I am not an expert, but I don't believe any external USB hard drive would
be faster than an internal drive - I believe the internal drive would be
significantly faster.<<

Even though USB 2.0 promises very fast speeds, chances are that the USB
external drive is an internal IDE drive in a box with a USB interface. The
advantages to the USB drive are not speed but portability.




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