On 12/19/05, Drake Donahue <donahue95@...> wrote:
> usb2.0 external hard drive has to be feasible. less than a $100 for 80gb.
> nominal 60MB/sec.
> usb2.0\1394b external hard drive. less than $300 for 300 gb. nominal
> 60MB\80MB/sec.

Using what hardware?  I've used more than a dozen different models of
USB2/1394 hard drives on 4 different PCs and have never seen one
exceed 30MB/s in actual thoughput, although the same disks installed
internally exceed 60MB/s.

-Richard

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