WD Raptor in USB Enclosure Speed up Mbps of USB?
October 27, 2009 - 5:35 pm
Or should I just stick with a regular hard drive? I’m looking at a Raptor right now with a good price tag on it.
Would sticking a Western Digital Raptor in an USB external enclosure make a difference in the performance threw the USB 2.0?
No. The theoretical throughput of USB 2.0 is 480Mbits/second, or about 60MBytes/second, but in real life it doesn’t work that fast. Even slow, old ATA100 hard drives transfer at 50 MBytes/second,so faster than that is a waste on a USB 2.0 connection. Save your money until USB 3.0 comes out.
October 27th, 2009 at 10:54 pm
No. The theoretical throughput of USB 2.0 is 480Mbits/second, or about 60MBytes/second, but in real life it doesn’t work that fast. Even slow, old ATA100 hard drives transfer at 50 MBytes/second,so faster than that is a waste on a USB 2.0 connection. Save your money until USB 3.0 comes out.
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