Max SATA Theoretical Speed: 3Gb/Sec Max USB 2.0 Theoretical Speed: 480 Mb/Sec
The point: If you need to hook up a SATA drive to this thing to get some data off of it real quick, yeah, that'll work, but don't try anything fancy, it'll slow your drive transfer rates significantly.
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Max SATA Theoretical Speed: 3Gb/Sec
Max USB 2.0 Theoretical Speed: 480 Mb/Sec
The point: If you need to hook up a SATA drive to this thing to get some data off of it real quick, yeah, that'll work, but don't try anything fancy, it'll slow your drive transfer rates significantly.
So it's no different than getting a USB (SATA/IDE) HDD External Enclosure?
Yeah, and SATA drive practical read speed: 80MB/sec...
Teren:
80 MB/s is 640 Mb/s. Uppercase Bs are byes, b's are bits. USB will be the limiting factor in reading disks this way.
Well, instead of making a protocol that can scale up easily, they found a way to make us buy new stuff. USB 3.0 will fix this... until /next/ time.
Oh, no! TCP/IP only works up to 1.5 Mbps! Whatever shall we do? Buy new routers, of course!
...
scale.