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Luca1

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Hi,

I have replaced my 5400rpm drive in my external hdd enclosure with my 7200rpm drive for recording audio/storing samples..

My question is, will USB be fast enough to transfer the data from the 7200rpm drive than from the 5400rpm drive or will it just bottleneck?..

Thanks
:Luca
 
USB will be the bottleneck, the maximum speed for USB 2.0 is around 60MB/s but usually average around 40-50MB/s. I'm pretty sure any 5200rpm drive can go faster than that.

You should try move onto USB 3.0 or eSata.
 
Wicked, thanks for confirming that man, I had a sneaking suspicion that was the case.

Bought an esata drive but having teething problems with the drive. Good to know I'm on the right track.

All the best,
:Luca
 
USB will be the bottleneck, the maximum speed for USB 2.0 is around 60MB/s but usually average around 40-50MB/s. I'm pretty sure any 5200rpm drive can go faster than that.

You should try move onto USB 3.0 or eSata.
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iv never seen usb 2.0 clear 25 MB\s do you have a link that saying diffent ?

and ya usb will choke the speed .usb 3.0 though should be able to deal with a single old school hdd with out too much speed loss
 
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