Thread: What external hard drive enclosure(s) do you use?
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Old 10-22-2008, 03:58 PM
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Default Re: What external hard drive enclosure(s) do you use?
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Originally Posted by mcphoto View Post
I've got a mercury elite 500GB and a LaCie 1TB, both running from a PCI eSATA card. They wrk great, and they keep my protools box all-by-itself on the Firewire bus. I run auto backups of everything all night long and there's plenty of space now.

eSATA is cool as heck - but get a card with port multiplier capability; that way you can upgrade to multi-drive hot swap enclosures down the line. It's not unusual for people to hang 5 or more 1TB drives on a buss like this.
So eSATA is noticeably faster than FW?... What are the major differences?
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