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Scorpio 320gig WD Laptop 5400rpm drive for desktop use

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quadcore86

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My case has a pluggable 2.5" enclosure drive slot which actually takes a 2.5" SATA drive and convert it to USB when plugged in (it's the B-ENVI case).

So after conversion, what speeds can I expect? USB 2.0 translates to 480Mbps but there is some overhead involved and considering the drive is 5400rpm, what kind of speeds can I expect?

P.S: I'm going to mainly use this drive for my college files and some ITunes. Maybe for some programming as well.
 
Can't you just hook up the drive with a sata cable? If so it would do better than USB.
 
Trap05 said:
Can't you just hook up the drive with a sata cable? If so it would do better than USB.
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I could use ESATA since the mobo has ESATA ports HOWEVER, I'd like to use the Case's "features"...it just looks cooler. What is the transfer rates I can get with the drive above in USB mode?
 
I wouldn't expect much at all, USB isn't great transfer wise, I would reccomend eSATA anyday :p
 
JamesXP said:
I wouldn't expect much at all, USB isn't great transfer wise, I would reccomend eSATA anyday :p
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Yes, but in terms of numbers...what are we expecting? 48MB/s? At least 50MB/s? (50mb/s is very acceptable).


I know a couple of months ago, I plugged in a Seagate 500gig and got like 20MB/s on USB 2.0 LOL
 
quadcore86 said:
Yes, but in terms of numbers...what are we expecting? 48MB/s? At least 50MB/s? (50mb/s is very acceptable).
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Do you mean for USB? 17-22 MB/sec max. eSATA is whatever speed your internal drives are, basically limited to the drive speed.
 
thideras said:
Do you mean for USB? 17-22 MB/sec max. eSATA is whatever speed your internal drives are, basically limited to the drive speed.
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USB 2.0. I don't understand how it can be 17-22MB/sec when USB 2.0 interface is rated at 480MBps which is 48MB/s and that would mean a net difference of at least 25MB/s.....how can there be 25MB/s of overhead?!?!?!


Also, my mobo? has the ICH9R chipset....are the SATA ports hotswappable while the comp is on? (I tried it with my old gigabyte mobo and it was hotswappble)
 
quadcore86 said:
USB 2.0. I don't understand how it can be 17-22MB/sec when USB 2.0 interface is rated at 480MBps which is 48MB/s and that would mean a net difference of at least 25MB/s.....how can there be 25MB/s of overhead?!?!?!
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You math is incorrect, it is 60mb/sec theoretical speed. Just because the speedometer goes to 200 doesn't mean the car can actually do it ;)


Also, my mobo? has the ICH9R chipset....are the SATA ports hotswappable while the comp is on? (I tried it with my old gigabyte mobo and it was hotswappble)
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Yes, you have to set the port as eSATA in the BIOS.
 
thideras said:
You math is incorrect, it is 60mb/sec theoretical speed. Just because the speedometer goes to 200 doesn't mean the car can actually do it ;)


Yes, you have to set the port as eSATA in the BIOS.
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What? There is no option like that in the BIOS.....
 
i'll bench my external in a minute here, just doing some maintainence on it ;)


btw, its a 100 gig Seagate spinpoint i think its 5200 RPM if not slower. and ide


edit : momentus 4200.2 ;)
 
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