I've seen too many crap enclosure give out. Of course I've seen quite a few drive manufacturers enclosures fail too. So far the most reliable enclosures we've found have been the Vantec ones. What drive you decide to put inside is up to you.
--- On Sun, 1/4/09, Lucifer Linux <lustfullanecoli...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: Lucifer Linux <lustfullanecoli...@gmail.com> > Subject: Biggger faster external usb hard drives Re: [Eug-lug] Laptops with > BIOS rig. . . 11/6/08 -0800 > To: euglug@euglug.org > Date: Sunday, January 4, 2009, 4:27 PM > http://www.mail-archive.com/euglug@euglug.org/msg12647.html > > >>> Re: [Eug-lug] Laptops with BIOS rigged for > Windows Vista > > >>>Chris LeBlanc > >>>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:48:01 -0800 > > >>>Mr. O said it correctly when he said > "WHOA!! Stop right there." > > >>>>As for running a distro from USB drive... > the problem is with how fast the external drives are. From > what I can find, even though USB 2.0 has a theoretical limit > of 60 MB/s, it usually tops out around 33 MB/s. When you > compare that to internal IDE drives at 133 MB/s, and SATA > which can go up to 375 MB/s (3.0 Gbps), then you can see > there is a big difference. > > There's some real nice bargains on eSata/usb dual > external hard drives > nowadays defies that statement. > > http://www.goharddrive.com/goHardDrive-500GB-7200rpm-16MB-Cache-USB-eSATA-p/g03-0188.htm > > Data Transfer Rate > USB 2.0 480 MBps > eSATA 3.0 Gbps > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
