Fastest External HDD

BigBouncyBall

Hi,

what is currently the fastest (without talking about silly £££) external HDD - are there any 10,000 RPM models out there?

I'm needing a new one for Video editing and need SPEED!

Help appreciated!

Conor_3

Completely pointless because the USB2/Firewire port is the limiting factor.

Anyone who has a clue about video editing doesn't use an external drive other than to back up or move data from one location to another - certainly not for doing the editing.

Little_John

If you want an external drive that is faster than USB2 then you need to spend and go for a scsi drive

USB2 is 400 megabits /s newer scsi is 320megabytes /s bits are smaller than bytes again another play on numbers to make people think that usb2 is fast it is compared to usb1 but it doesnt compare to scsi.

But the cost is huge a large 15000rpm drive wil cost £300 decent 320 controler another £150-£300 external case for the drive will set you back £50-£100 and you need to buy the external cable and they used to cost a fortune aswell.

The downside is that unless the other pc that will use the drive, I asume you need to move the drve arround wanting external, will also need a scsi adaptor so even more expense.

BigBouncyBall

Editing is fine over a FW800 port. so there.

I think i'll just look for a 7200RPM - it'll be good enough.

mertuk

I bought this drive and it's quick

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HD-142-SE&tool=3

You'll need and enclosure to fit the drive into

nickcardwell

what about a external sata drive?

Blacksheep1979

nickcardwell wrote: »

what about a external sata drive?

as others have already pointed out sata, ide doesn't make a difference - you're limited by the transfer speeds of usb/firewire.

banger9365

you can get a e-sata External HDD case and put a hdd of what ever sieze you need in it eg
http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=12999&category_id=505&manufacturer_id=0&tid=nl-hd29
and mite need one off these
http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=17983&category_id=59

and a HDD
cannot remember if it comes with one connector

just read this and your total wrong
"as others have already pointed out sata, ide doesn't make a difference - you're limited by the transfer speeds of usb/firewire"
not if your us a e-sata it's just has fast a a sata drive and you can do hot-swapping.
max transfer rates
USB 2-40MB/s
FireWire 400-49MB/s
FireWire 800-98MB/s
Sata 150(sata 1)-150MB/s
Sata 300(sata 2)-300MB/s
eSata-300MB/s
and last put not leased Ultra-320 SCSI-320MB/s
and the site http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA
http://www.serialata.org/esata.asp
sorry put had to put it right

nickcardwell

Blacksheep1979 wrote: »

as others have already pointed out sata, ide doesn't make a difference - you're limited by the transfer speeds of usb/firewire.

meant to mean what banger9365 says!

You can get an external sata drive which connects via an external sata connection on the board/back of pc.