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Lots of HDD RPMs and company suggestions, but to the point... |
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My two cents are: ESATA. I have multi TB external disks which I have |
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physics data stored on and needs to be analyzed. USB might be as fast |
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(in the best case), but it uses processor overhead. |
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Not that a lot of machines support that kind of input. I picked up a |
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decent laptop for cheap that also supports ESATA. I didn't do |
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benchmarks or anything, but it's really insane IMO. |
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~daid |
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PS Sorry I deleted all the reply text. I didn't want to copy/paste |
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individual references to different company external drives and so on, |
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just to not really care. Mine is something by Buffalo, but I care |
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because it has ESATA. |
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PPS Or you could be my friends using USB formated NTFS and I can use |
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top to see how much processor power is used by ntfs-3g just to read |
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the data. Ugh! |
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