Paul Van Noord wrote: > Also, using an external hard drive is 2-3 times safer regarding lost > data during a power failure simply because of performance. > and because of the filesystem too. still nobody mentioned that.
and because of the "compressed" attribute if on NTFS: it first writes as-is, then reads and tries to compress. and writes again, if compression gained anything. and the more asymmetrical the device (in terms of read/write speed ratio), the more noticeable the latter. -- Signed, Vitalie. ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.99.06 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
