Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/11/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No problem. An ESATA won't do you any good if you don't have a ESATA connector on your machine. Come to think of it, I don't think any Mac has one except for the Mac Pro, so... go get a firewire drive, it's much faster than USB2. To clarify - in addition to a fast drive (high RPM and big cache), the transfer speed must be fast also. Generally: ESATA > Firewire > USB2 > USB1 While USB2 sounds good on spec, it sucks rocks since it uses your machine's CPU to do data transfer. Firewire and SATA do not have such high overhead. USB3 is a different beast but that's one or two years away. On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Peter Cheyne <geordiepete211 at yahoo.co.uk>wrote: > Thanks, Richard, > > clearly explained! So I just ordered matching pairs of 2 GB RAM from > Crucial. > > As for the bottleneck being the Ext. HDD, it has USB only, not firewire, is > by Buffalo, and About This Mac tells me: USB-SATA bridge 465.76 GB, SMART > not supported. That seems like it is SATA then, and not ESATA, which I > guess is better, from what you said. Maybe I'll look for an ESATA drive > with a large capacity, 2 TB or so, and just move the contents of the old > one > onto the new one. As for a back-up drive, I have never been organized with > that, but the worry is sometimes at he back of mind. > > Cheers, I appreciate your advice! > > Peter Cheyne > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > -- // richard <http://www.imagecraft.com/> // icc blog: <http://imagecraft.com/blog/> // photo blog: <http://www.5pmlight.com> [ For technical support on ImageCraft products, please include all previous replies in your msgs. ]