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James G
I have heard about Firewire and how you can attach hard drives.
I haven't seen them but I think you can get enclosures which will hold an
IDE hard drive and you can plug that into your PC.
If I am right the advantage is that you can easily swap the drive between
system but the disadvatange is that you can't boot from the drive.
Is all this correct?
Also can someone tell me what the effective or real transfer rate is using
Firewire when compared to using the usual internal parallel ATA cables. Is
the Firewire (nominally 50 or 100 Mbps) approximately as fast as 100 MHz
IDE/ATA in real life?
Can the same sort of setup of an external hard drive be done with USB 2.0?
I haven't seen them but I think you can get enclosures which will hold an
IDE hard drive and you can plug that into your PC.
If I am right the advantage is that you can easily swap the drive between
system but the disadvatange is that you can't boot from the drive.
Is all this correct?
Also can someone tell me what the effective or real transfer rate is using
Firewire when compared to using the usual internal parallel ATA cables. Is
the Firewire (nominally 50 or 100 Mbps) approximately as fast as 100 MHz
IDE/ATA in real life?
Can the same sort of setup of an external hard drive be done with USB 2.0?