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| Thread ID: 115298 | 2011-01-11 23:42:00 | USB 3.0 | lostsoul62 (16011) | Press F1 |
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| 1168962 | 2011-01-11 23:42:00 | I'm building another computer and the last one I tried to build before the RAM blew it up had esata which I think is not the way to go. So now when I pick out a motherboard I will make sure it has USB3.0 and forget about esata. Of course I will buy a USB 3.0 Hard Drive. www.frys.com I'm just double checking because I want to make sure I get it right. |
lostsoul62 (16011) | ||
| 1168963 | 2011-01-11 23:58:00 | There are no USB hard drives. There are USB hard drive enclosures of course. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1168964 | 2011-01-12 00:06:00 | Of course I will buy a USB 3.0 Hard Drive. There are SATA 3 Hard Drives. | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1168965 | 2011-01-12 02:51:00 | There are no USB hard drives. There are USB hard drive enclosures of course. What does that mean? Everyone I know has an external USB hard drive and I have two of them? |
lostsoul62 (16011) | ||
| 1168966 | 2011-01-12 02:53:00 | What does that mean? Everyone I know has an external USB hard drive and I have two of them? Technically in most cases the hard drive itself doesn't have a USB interface, it will be a SATA interface with a SATA-to-USB converter in the enclosure. |
inphinity (7274) | ||
| 1168967 | 2011-01-12 02:56:00 | Currently no operating system supports USB 3.0 so the hardware is useless. | DeSade (984) | ||
| 1168968 | 2011-01-12 03:00:00 | I'm building another computer and the last one I tried to build before the RAM blew it up had esata which I think is not the way to go. So now when I pick out a motherboard I will make sure it has USB3.0 and forget about esata. Of course I will buy a USB 3.0 Hard Drive. www.frys.com I'm just double checking because I want to make sure I get it right. I wouldn't bother with USB 3 yet, because it is barely supported. I am not sure what you are on about with esata, but connecting a sata external drive to a computer is great, and way faster than a USB one. It is just as fast as an internal drive. You can always get a USB 3.0 card when it is more compatible, but I wouldn't waste my money on it at the moment. I hate USB 2 external harddrives, they are so slow compared to sata ones, I only use them for backups. |
robbyp (2751) | ||
| 1168969 | 2011-01-12 04:21:00 | Buy a motherboard with USB 3, you do not pay more, it is expected now. To reiterate what pctek said, USB hard drives refer to the enclosures of externals, you'll be buying a SATA hard drive for internal. | jackM (14814) | ||
| 1168970 | 2011-01-12 04:47:00 | As others have said, External USB hard drives are just a normal SATA or IDE drive in an enclosure with a separate power supply and connected through a USB-ATA bridge chip and its associated circuitry. USB Flash drives on the other hand are different. I personally would buy a board with USB 3.0, so that I had it for future use, even if I didn't use it yet. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1168971 | 2011-01-12 06:05:00 | Everyone I know has an external USB hard drive Not me. I started buying USB hard drives when the standard size was 110GB, and eventually got to 5 of various sizes, but they were bulky and cluttered the floor with power packs. They also tended to be unreliable. (Overheating, problems with DC switch) So I got rid of the lot and bought a pair of eSATA docks. I now have 12 bare hard drives ranging from 500 GB to 2 TB. It's a huge improvement |
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