Buffalo Announces USB 3.0 DriveStation External HDD

[PP Mguire]

Learn to take a joke. Im not all for cereals like that guy up there.

 

[Mussels]

Is that 125mb/s both ways or total? If its total thats not better than eSATA.

you cant get mechanical drives that do faster. 'on par with same drive in an e-sata enclosure'

 

[PP Mguire]

Even with my SSD eSATA dosent really go as fast as internal SATA. The controllers suck balls.

 

[Mussels]

Even with my SSD eSATA dosent really go as fast as internal SATA. The controllers suck balls.

both mine do, to reasonable speeds. having short cables seems to be important. (EG, a native e-sata plug will work better than a sata to E-sata, due to the added cable length)

 

[PP Mguire]

Im currently sitting on the onboard eSATA with a WD Black and my avg read/write is 50.

 

[Mussels]

Im currently sitting on the onboard eSATA with a WD Black and my avg read/write is 50.

might be the WD's fault.

no offense to the black series, but the greenpowers i had (and sold in a hurry) only did 45MB/s on the latter half of the drive.

 

[Wile E]

You are absolutely correct. And i hope it takes out the rest of the peripherals because im tired of seeing old Firewire on my mobo and constantly disabling it in the Bios. Im tired of trying to find SATA cables for eSATA ports when i only get a double of USB2.0 speed because the controllers in the external HD enclosures cant handle faster speeds. It means i can get an external NAS type enclosure so i can have all my storage on one bus and not worry about speed problems or finding a ridiculously priced eSATA storage unit.

Not me. I still prefer Firewire to this day. It's faster than 2.0, and better at a ton of things, especially recording equipment and streaming protocols. I hope there they release Firewire 1600, or something along those lines, to compete with this.

And I get full speed from my eSATA, but then again, I don't use an enclosure. Just a SATA to eSATA cable and direct power to the drive.

 

[Mussels]

Not me. I still prefer Firewire to this day. It's faster than 2.0, and better at a ton of things, especially recording equipment and streaming protocols. I hope there they release Firewire 1600, or something along those lines, to compete with this.

And I get full speed from my eSATA, but then again, I don't use an enclosure. Just a SATA to eSATA cable and direct power to the drive.

i suppose what people are hoping is that USB 3.0 becomes superior to firewire.

i mean, you dont see firewire mouse or keyboards for PC, so USB is here to stay - we just want it to get better