Moving a PATA drive to an external enclosure

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If I move an internal ATA-133 PATA drive into an USB 2.0 enclosure, will
I lose performance? (Assume the drive is the only USB device in the
system.)
 
Grinder said:
If I move an internal ATA-133 PATA drive into an USB 2.0 enclosure, will
I lose performance? (Assume the drive is the only USB device in the
system.)

Yes. USB sucks, relatively speaking.

Paul
 
Paul said:
Yes. USB sucks, relatively speaking.

<Dryly>
My understanding is that USB is a bidirectional transfer
protocol. Given that, is it your opinion that USB sucks
*and* blows?
</Dryly>
 
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