From: Laurent Daudelin (laurent.daudelin_at_verizon.net)
Date: Wed Nov 09 2005 - 19:48:40 PST
on 09/11/05 18:29, James Lee at kingjames_at_shaw.ca wrote:
> I'm currently at the crossroads having to decide whether to buy a
> ATA-133 card or a firewire enclosure. The card costs twice that of the
> enclosure. Theoretically, the card supports up to 4 drives whereas one
> can have many more firewire drives connected in series. Furthermore,
> the firewire drive has the flexibility in that it is portable enough to
> go along with one's PowerBook. Other than the clutter of having an
> additional piece of hardware sitting on one's table top and also having
> to use an AC adaptor to power the firewire drive, I don't know of any
> other disadvantage of having the 'supersized' hard drive as an external
> drive. Perhaps someone may attest to the possibility of a faster speed
> of data transfer via the ATA-133 card than through firewire?
>
> As you can see, Laurent, I'm leaning towards getting an external
> enclosure and thus I am very interested in knowing your rationale in
> picking the ATA-133 card over the 'externalized' solution. I'm probably
> ignorant about many things as I'm not a techie and I would like to make
> the right decision.
Well, in my case, I just didn't want to have the clutter of multiple
enclosures sitting on the computer. I've got my card from eBay for around
$65 if I remember correctly. So, it was not that much higher than an
enclosure for a 3.5 drive. Plus, I don't have to worry that somebody would
disconnect the drive or turn it off. Finally, I save a few spots on my power
bar. And if you have fast drives, I think you would get a better throughput
from the ATA-133 card than regular FireWire. Might not be true for FireWire
2, but those enclosures are way more expensive than regular FireWire
enclosures...
-Laurent.
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