[mdlug] Damaged Image recovery

[Aaron Kulkis]

Garry Stahl wrote:
> Aaron Kulkis wrote:
>> Or you just buy a SATA drive, and put it in a $35 USB
>> enclosure...then SATA marginally beats a USB drive.
>>   
> I just did a cost comparison on that.  Any USB drive is equal to any
> SATA + USB enclosure of the same size.  They might be a few bucks up or
> down either direction depending on the make and model and what is
> currently on sale.  But there is no real cost savings to either direction.
> 

So you're saying external drive makers aren't raping
the customers any more?

Last time I looked at prices of external drives, about
a year ago, the price difference for a 500GB was about
$100 between vendor-assembled and build-it-yourself.

> The big advantage to Drive + Enclosure is if you feel you will be
> upgrading that drive in a reasonable amount of time.  USB speeds are
> going to prevail no matter how fast the transfer rate of the drive as
> long as it is connected via USB.
> 

True.