{"id":261,"date":"2007-09-19T18:33:45","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T03:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/which-500gb-drive-should-i-buy"},"modified":"2007-09-19T18:33:45","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T03:33:45","slug":"which-500gb-drive-should-i-buy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yvod.com\/ulan\/which-500gb-drive-should-i-buy\/","title":{"rendered":"Which 500GB drive should I buy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am a film student at Berkeley Digital Film Institute<\/a> and I need to get an external 500GB drive for my work. I was looking at a drive from New Egg<\/a> and was wondering if you think I should get it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The drive you are looking at costs $120. This is a nice price.<\/p>\n

You might want to look at this one<\/a> that costs $99 with rebate.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, your instructor told you to get a drive with a Firewire 800 external connection and the one you are looking at is USB 2.0. <\/p>\n

—-<\/p>\n

USB 2.0 is about equal to the speed of Firewire 400 (1394a).<\/strong><\/p>\n

USB 2.0 is about half as fast as Firewire 800 (1394b).<\/strong><\/p>\n

—-<\/p>\n

To make matters even more confusing, SATA<\/a> is another connection that is even faster than Firewire 800. It was developed to be smaller, faster and cheaper than Firewire. Many internal<\/strong> drives use SATA.<\/p>\n

There is just one problem – Macs can not connect directly to SATA drives since they do not have an external SATA port!<\/p>\n

Here is a $70 case with a SATA internal and a Firewire 400 \/ USB 2 external<\/a> connection.<\/p>\n

Here is a $100 case with a SATA internal and a Firewire 800 external<\/a> connection.<\/p>\n

Please note that these prices are for the case alone! You will still need to purchase a 500GB SATA hard drive to put in these cases. Here is a $150 500GB SATA drive<\/a>.<\/p>\n

$120 for USB 2.0 vs $250 for Firewire 800 with internal SATA<\/strong><\/p>\n

5 years ago film folks would have been ecstatic to have that amount of space at USB 2.0 speeds. Now that you can get almost double the speed using SATA\/Firewire 800, people with cash buy the faster drives. <\/p>\n

If you are tight on cash, purchase the $100 USB 2.0 solution and run with it… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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