Tuesday, July 19, 2005
Cutting Through the External Storage Confusion
Posted by James Fee in "ARTICLE" @ 08:00 AM
"Whether you buy a whole drive or build one, a wealth of different options exist for storing your digital life. Depending on your needs, you can go with large format, large capacity drives, tiny pocket-sized drives, and even battery-powered or bus-powered hardware. The ability to roll your own also exists. We're looking forward to eSATA becoming more mature. We'd love to see a multifunction case, like the CoolMax CD-311, that offers FireWire 800, USB 2.0, and eSATA support. Better yet, if you can use a 2.5-inch hard drive, you can probably build a viable RAID system out of a stack of pocket-sized drives. RAID on-the-go? Now that should be interesting."
ExtremeTech has an review of external hard drives, in various forms, greater than 6GB. I was quite impressed with the scope of the article and if you want to learn more about all the different type you'll want to check it out also.
ExtremeTech has an review of external hard drives, in various forms, greater than 6GB. I was quite impressed with the scope of the article and if you want to learn more about all the different type you'll want to check it out also.
