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Forte Free Agent is much better than Outhouse Express if you don't have
the time to learn a better OS than Windows.
[ im5150too wants to get another disk to speed up his scanning and is
wondering whether he needs an IDE/SCSI disk ]
Works great with both SilverFast and Epson Scan.
im5150too said earlier that he was using an Epson 4870 and a Nikon V
LS-50. Google leads me to believe that both of those are USB 2 devices.
So, if you're using your USB 2 scanner and you plug a USB 2 storage
device in, and you try to use both devices at the same time, you will
get bus contention. This might make things *slower* than they were
before, depending on how much data is being transferred.
im5150too: If your scanners are USB2, don't plug in a USB2 storage
device and expect anything to get faster. I'd go for IDE, mostly
because IDE disks are cheaper than USB2 disks. Open the case, jumper
the drive as "slave", hook it in to the second IDE connector (the one
that probably is plugged into a CD-RW/DVD.)[0] Close the case, do
whatever the Windows equivalent of cfdisk/mkfs is, go back to scanning.
If IDE channel 1 is already full (2 CD-RWs), you can plug the disk into
channel 0, no problem. IDE contention may minimize speed, but you'll
still get sustained writes of ~8M/sec out of a modern drive.
[0] IDE's fundamental brain-damage makes it impossible for both devices
on the channel to be active at once. So you don't typically put
disks that are going to be used heavily on channel 0, since the disk
where Windows lives is almost always on channel 0. SCSI eliminates this
brain-damage, but SCSI is too complicated for the end-user what with the
goats and all.
