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eSATA External Storage Drive Reviewed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the happy-marriages-of-technology dept.

Tom's Hardware has a practical look at an eSATA drive offering from Taiwanese storage firm Thecus. From the article: "Thecus' N2050 is one of the first external twin-drive RAID boxes that uses eSATA. As expected, its performance was far better than what USB 2.0 offers. The end result is impressive. The date transfer rate of 30 MB/s that USB 2.0 offers does indeed pale in comparison to 100 MB/s for eSATA, while the WD1500 drives are capable of delivering even better performance in RAID 0. It is also good to see that Thecus did not throw the USB 2.0 interface away, because it is a nice backup interface whenyou want to use the device with other computers via USB 2.0."

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  1. hardware sites are lame by Abtin · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    pretty much every hardware site out there is lame.

    where to start...

    * they use a pair of 15k rpm drives in the box. the box has one dinky fan. if this was your actual setup, you would be able to boil water in the box. not good for the drives.

    * they say something like "thank god esata is so much faster than usb 2.0. look at our pretty statics showing transfer rate is the bottleneck." nonsense. If you are using a pair of raid 0 $400 drives, and you defrag your drives every couple minutes, then yes transfer rate might be a bottleneck. However if you are someone that lives on planet earth, usb 2.0 will be more than sufficient.

    I am not saying anything about the enclosure itself. it looks kind of useful. but toms is pretty much always full of shit.