Monday, April 19, 2004
CMS 80GB Velocity SATA External Drive
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "HARDWARE" @ 02:00 PM
"Back in the twentieth century, the only alternative to SCSI for external hard drives was a parallel port, which was deadly slow. Then came USB and FireWire drives. Both are a vast improvement over parallel-port drives, but even a FireWire port can't move data as fast as a hard drive can read and write. The new CMS 80GB Velocity SATA Automatic Backup System ($299 direct) offers to solve that problem. This external Serial ATA (SATA) drive costs more than an equivalent FireWire drive, but the performance blows a FireWire drive away."
If you don't have an SATA controller on your motherboard, you can get one from CMS for $39. Clearly the guys at PCWorld have been blown away by the performance of this device. This is great solution because for just $299, you get an additional drive that supports a serial ATA connection which gives the high speed transfers (that you can also use for backups) and also lets you boot from the drive if your internal drive fails. However, this does come at the price that installation of the drive is not as simple as a plug and play USB/Firewire external hard drive.
If you don't have an SATA controller on your motherboard, you can get one from CMS for $39. Clearly the guys at PCWorld have been blown away by the performance of this device. This is great solution because for just $299, you get an additional drive that supports a serial ATA connection which gives the high speed transfers (that you can also use for backups) and also lets you boot from the drive if your internal drive fails. However, this does come at the price that installation of the drive is not as simple as a plug and play USB/Firewire external hard drive.
