> Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 03:23:17 +1000 (EST)
> From: r s <rskr_au@yahoo.com.au>
> a) The current 6.4GB drive is rated at 4200/2MB. I am thinking about
> buying a 20GB/30GB drive.
>
> Most drives that I find are rated at 5400 or 7200 with 8MB cache.
>
> Will the T600E support these newer drives or should I stick with
> buying a drive rated for 4200/2MB itself ?
Your 600E will handle drives that fast and that large. The IDE controller in
the early 600E's will go at 33MB/s, and most drives will not sustain data
rates that high. It will handle drives at least as large as 138GB, but the
largest available are 80GB.
> b) I have noticed that 3.5" drives are much cheaper than 2.5" drives.
> Ideally, I would like to retain the existing 6.4GB internal
> harddisk and buy an external 3.5" drive ( say 160GB or 200 GB) drive
> and connect it to the T600E.
>
> Is this possible ? Has anybody tried something similar ?
Sure it's possible, but it has several disadvantages. An internal hard disk
is MUCH faster than any external drive. The new drives make much less noise
that the old drives that came with the 600E too.
As to how much faster, if you get a USB drive, that is limited to 12Mb/s
(12 million BITS per second), as opposed to the newest drives with sustained
data rates at let's say 15 megaBYTES per second. So ten or more times
faster.
That's very noticeable. Not to mention that you have another box to tote
around if you are on the move. (This is using the USB1.1 port on the 600E.)
Even if you go over a 100Mb/s network instead of USB, there's extra latency
introduced by the network and I'd guess it would be only half as fast as an
internal drive.
If it were me, I would strongly consider buying a newER drive (say 20GB or
so) to get a quiet drive with a good deal of capacity for when mobile, and a
network device at home, or just another shared drive in a server.
Take care,
Chris
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