What is faster - a 7200 RPM external Hard Drive connected through USB 2.0 or a 5600(close?) RPM internal HD?
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Everything else equal, the 7200 because hard drives these days aren't fast enough to max out the USB 2.0.\n\nThe 5400 would also be more likely to be an older generation and might have less cache.  Most of the newer hard drives that have good performance run on 7200.
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The only suggestion I can think of off hand is to check and make sure the formatting is correct on the drive.  Use HFS+, unless you want to do multi-platform transfers, then go with FAT 32.
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Check this Microcenter link for external HDD enclosures. You want USB 2.0 for a 2.5" HDD. Good Luck.\nhttp://www.microcenter.com/byos/byos_search_results_e.phtml?coordinate_group=HJ9B
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Hard to say without knowing what you are using to control RAID.  Is it software raid controlled by OS?  Do you have a dedicated RAID controller?  How much memory on the RAID controller?\n\nGuessing you are using software RAID, I would say the reads and writes will be faster to 1 SCSI drive then to mirrored 7200 SATA drives.\n\nSee this article for comparison of the two:\nhttp://www.windowsitpro.com/Articles/Index.cfm?ArticleID=41803&DisplayTab=Article
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lets see.. 2mbps versus 12mbps (normal) or 480mbps (high speed)...\ngo pick up a pci usb 2.0 HS card.
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It sounds to me like your external hard drive is having problems. I ran into a similar situation on a laptop and found out the hard drive wasn't fast enough. You say you are using an external, is it 7500 rpm? Make sure it is, if it is not you might have to buy a new one. Also I recomend using firewire connections instead of USB 2. Supposedly USB 2 is fast enough for video, but everything I have read indicates that it is rated for use in bursts not in sustained data transfers so it can get a little wonky at times. (I am not an expert, but this is a prejudice that I have picked up along the way from articles and information I have read. I could be wrong.)\n\nIf that doesn't work try defragmenting the hard drive. and even try reinstalling vegas and see if that gets you any better results.\n\nHope that helps,\nTony
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just buy a good drive, maxtor ( now seagate ) or western digital\nmake sure the interface is the same ( it's probaly PATA and not SATA is you got a 33gb hardrive ), most all are 7200 rpm\nyour biggest problem will be weather or not your bios can handle a drive over 137Gb if you get one that big, you also did not mention your OS, and what you be foramtting the drive to ( FAT32 or NTFS ).
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Maxtor has recently been bought out by Seagate, iam not sure what this will mean for the brand as a whole.\n\nMost drives on the market today are fairly reliable. I would however reccommend that to stay away from a brand called Exelstor.\n\nIf you have got some money to burn the Western digital WD X 150 is a good buy (15000 rpm's, 16MB cache, seek time is abit high though and i don't thinks it's going to be all that quiet)\nhttp://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=190   \n\nOn the IDE end go for anything Seagate Barracuda that runs at 7200.9 rpm, has an 8MB buffer with a low seek time, 8.5ms shouldn't be too bad.
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USB External hard drives are very affordable and have the advantage of being portable. Another alternative is copying your data to a DVD(s). Then store them offsite in case of a fire or other disaster.
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firewire\n\nIt's quicker then a usb port and it allows you to transfer outside data quicker such as harddrive info from another computer or transfer a vhs tape to a dvd , cd or vice-versa.
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It sounds like you are using a new 7200 rpm drive and an old 5400 drive, this means that the pc will run using the slowest drive speed.\n\nThe best way is to back everything up using something like Acronis etc, then reformat the new drive and and reload the image on the new drive.\n\nOnce you have the image created, remove the old drive and install the new one as the primary drive, and make sure your using a 80 wire IDE cable to make best use of your new drive, you can tell if its 80 wire, they are flatter and have colored connectors at each end.
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2.5 for laptop drives
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NTFS is a better option . dont stop
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neither!\nyou hardly need 2GB RAM in a notebook, and secondly a 7200RPM disk is not that faster as a 5400RPM and btw you lose 20GB.
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You need to choose, which type of application do you want to use the Hard Disk (HD)?\n\nVideo, picture, and audio: the HD need to have a large capacity in GB and a lot of cache memory or buffer. This is necessary because this type of files are large and the HD has to delivery without delays. Second is the velocity in RPM could be around 7200.\n\nDatabase, commercial applications and Internet: HD need to have the ability to delivery a lots of files or little pieces of information, you need to looking for average seek time, RPM could be almost 7200. This type of application some times don't need a large HD, but they need a fast access to the information.\n\nThe warranty and service in your area for the HD that you want to buy is an important fact, because this type of device is usually fragile.\n\nThe Operative System (O.S.) in your computer, Some HD works well with a specific O.S. or application. The most popular OS are; Linux, Mac or Windows.\n\nDon't forget that the amount of memory RAM is very important in the HD performance. The actual applications eat a lot of MB RAM. I recommend almost 512 MB RAM for general applications, and 1GB or more for Video and graphics applications.\n\nYou said a decent system, I suppose that you have a motherboard that support latest HD technology, Processor is almost 1 Ghz and 256 Mb DDR Memory whit 400 MHz on bus, Video Card with 64 MB.
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Internal drives referred or hard drive it's installed in your computer tower.  An external hard drive usually plugs and with the USB two or a FireWire cable.  The only real difference is, an external hard drive is much easier to install!  And you can take it with you when you go someplace.
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The performance results you get may vary due to factors such as the speed of the Front Side Bus (FSB) and the ATA supported by the computer.\n\nSerial ATA drives offer several advantages over parallel drives, not the least of which is speed. The maximum data transfer rate (or burst rate) for most parallel drives is 100 to 133 megabytes per second. Drives using the first generation of the SATA interface can reach 150 MBps. By 2007 that rate will climb to 600 MBps.