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CrimsonTears

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Is there that much of a difference in speed with external to internal? Mostly I use external for media so will I really noticed a difference between the two? Newegg is selling the 1tb (internal and external) for only 200 atm so I wanted to pick it up.
 
Depends on what connection you're using. If Firewire or USB, external drives will be slower. If using eSATA, the external hard drive speeds will almost match that of its internal brethren.

Personally, I have noticied the difference between an eSATA drive and a USB drive. Man is eSATA fast!
 
It depends on what interface the drive has and what interface you are using to connect the drive to your computer if you are comparing the same HD. If you go with a solid SATA 300 drive with an eSata enclosure you shouldn't notice any difference from the same drive connected internally to your Sata interface on your motherboard.

But thats assuming you have an eSata port on your motherboard if you only have usb or firewire then using the internal Sata port would be a faster option.

Edit: Dan beat me to the punch! :D
 
Thanks for the answers ^^ Also are firewire cables worth the price? I have one port in the front for it. But I don't think my 680 mobo has the eSATA ( actually never even heard of this. )
 
Honestly I would get the backplate that Malkizadek posted and go with eSata over firewire. The bracket is only 3 bucks and you will enjoy much faster speeds than using your firewire ports.
 
CrimsonTears said:
Thanks for the answers ^^ Also are firewire cables worth the price? I have one port in the front for it. But I don't think my 680 mobo has the eSATA ( actually never even heard of this. )
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Cables are always expensive. There are places that sell them cheap. I also would go the adapter + eSATA.
 
Sadly this one was only a 4 pin and I'm getting max speeds on it of 2mbs compared to my other my book which gets 30-70mbs. So I'll definately be dropping the money to speed this thing up. Thanks for the info on the drives otherwise I would pull my hair out moving any media to this thing. I don't know if it's normal but this drive has been formating for over 3 hours. I turned it into NTFS.
 
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