New build, need fast external solution...

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Liu Kang

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I am building a new rig and I do not have any hard drive bays in the case. That being said, I love the transfer/write speeds of my raptors, and was hoping to put one in an external enclosure and use it as my primary boot device and to run all my apps.

That being said, what kind of performance decrease would I be looking at? I can support Firewire 800 in my new build, so I'd be looking at an enclosure that would support it...

Any info, links or experience is greatly appreciated. TIA.
 
I would do an esata enclosure. I think you will have trouble configuring os's to boot off firewire or usb. Esata should work similar to SATA in the os, depending on how its implemented on your motherboard.
 
assuming your esata enclosure & cabling is working right, you should get the same speeds as if it were internal connected with sata.
 
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