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Old Aug 25, 2009 | 7:37 am
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Originally Posted by bdjohns1
And if you really want speed, you go with an eSATA drive, which is basically going to have the same performance as an internal drive.
+1 on eSATA. Many drives have both an eSATA and USB interface, so you can use the USB interface for compatibility with all PC's, and then switch to eSATA when you need the extra performance. I have an eSATA ExpressCard for my laptop and my external FreeAgent Xtreme drive screams on it.
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