External Hard Disks Part 1
by Pierre Boisvenue. 24/05/2007 2:23:26 PM
I stumbled across a good article on zdnet about external storage and after
reading the reviews on the Western Digital My Book I opted instead to consider
the Seagate FreeAgent Pro. What I like about the unit is that aside from being
usb 2.0 and Firewire compatible it also supports the newer ESATA interface so
instead of relying on a data speed rate of 400Mbps ESATA provides 2,400Mpbs, a
big difference.
Yet again ESATA means that I have to purchase an ESATA PCI card and use up one
card slot. The cards are cheap on eBay yet are unavailable at the moment near a
Future/Best Buy outlet near me. What is puzzling for me now is with the fact
that this Seagate unit will be twice as fast as my internal SATA drive yet and
the reason I am considering the unit is to serve as a backup device. Would I be
able to boot an OS from it? Time will tell.
Hard Disk, SATA, eSata, USB External Drive, Backup, Ghost, Disk Image
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