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02-27-2006, 12:17 PM
I was wondering if it is possible to runn a server off a external HDD. Here are the specs for the HDD...
Driver Description Maxtor 6 Y080L0 USB Device
Driver Date 7/1/2001
Driver Version 5.1.2535.0
Driver Provider Microsoft
INF File disk.inf
Hard Disk Family DiamondMax Plus 9
Form Factor 3.5"
Formatted Capacity 80 GB
Disks 1
Recording Surfaces 2
Physical Dimensions 146.1 x 101.6 x 26.1 mm
Max. Weight 630 g
Average Rotational Latency 4.17 ms
Rotational Speed 7200 RPM
Interface Ultra-ATA/133
Buffer-to-Host Data Rate 133 MB/s
Buffer Size 2 MB
Just being curious about this stuff...
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might slightly run faster if it is better than another hd, but really its not the hd that matters much...
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Well, yah my main one is a 30 gig. so I was just wondering.. Just gotta get a better ISP, (bellsouth) sucks ass.
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Yeah, a good isp is really the heart of it, go for a popular cable or dsl provider like optimum or verizon.
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02-27-2006, 01:49 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-27-2006, 01:52 PM by candy-man.)
I believe USB 2.0 has a transfer rate of 480 megabits per second (don't quote me on that). That'd be 60 megabytes per second.
ATA 100 has a transfer rate of 100 megabytes per second and I believe SATA is 150 megabytes per second. I'm not sure how fast the new SATA (SATA 2?) drives are.
By my calculations, USB 2 would be a bit slower, but I don't think it'd be that big of a deal.
Edit: Was curious so I looked up what the new SATA drive speeds are; 300 megabytes per second.
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yea, the new sata is awesome. i love it =)
but yea usb 2.0 would only be slower if it was in comparison to a sata drive, although theres still tons of eide drives out there, myself i have atleast 10 spread out in my computers, and usb would be faster then that. i don't remember exactly transfer, but eide (or more commonly just called ide) is crawling compared to sata.
either way! i wouldn't worry about it, it should be fine. but if you run into really long map load times or something, that would be the first thing i would look at.