esata HD as main drive

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neotekz

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im thinking of getting either the seagate freeagent pro or xtreme and using it as my main drive for my new build. will these drives be fast enough for gaming?
 
neotekz said:
im thinking of getting either the seagate freeagent pro or xtreme and using it as my main drive for my new build. will these drives be fast enough for gaming?
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ESATA is the exact same bus as SATA, it just uses a different connector. You can easily connect an ESATA hard drive and have it be the boot drive on your PC. Hell, I actually have a few ESATA drives around here that I use for Linux, Windows, and OSX seperately, Pretty handy sometimes! :)
 
im using the antec 900 and using a swiftech rad that takes up 8 of my 9 bays, so i can either put a HD or dvd-rom in that remaining bay. im even thinking of not using that bay at all and just have both external HD and dvd rom.

will the motherboard recognize both external HD and DVD rom even if there is no windows installed? do i need any drivers before the systems sees the drives?
 
Hey think you could take a picture for me of the front of your case? I am planning to put a 2x120 in the front of my 900 also. I'm sure you can boot a drive through bios.
 
the front of the case can take 3X120 and each 120mm fan takes up 3 slots. you can also put the fan in front of slots with hard drives.
 
keep in mind that some eSATA enclosures are crap (well better than USB 2.0) but much worse than regular SATA so it might not be optimum for a boot drive. Take this seagate eSATA 750 GB drive for example. I had two hooked up to my mythbox and one of the enclosures started having problems so I took it out and now one is internal.

Internal:
myth ~ # dd bs=1M count=1000 if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/null
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 14.2169 s, 73.8 MB/s

Esata:
myth ~ # dd bs=1M count=1000 if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null
1000+0 records in
1000+0 records out
1048576000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 24.522 s, 42.8 MB/s

Just something to keep in mind.
 
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