External Hard Drive: USB 2.0 VS Esata

[Preeti Nevagi]

hi,
i am interested to get the hard drives,there are two options one is of usb 2.0 and other is of esata, the difference is for the cost and the speed of the transfer of the data, so please any one recommend me get to the best one related to the data transfer from my computer to the external hard drive.

[Eru]

The difference which you like to know for the speed between the USB 2.0 and the Esata,so i would like inform you that you would go with Esata, because esata provides six times speed of the USB 2.0 drive, the transfer rate of massive files is great,if the file size are in mb then the speed wont make any difference.

[Erubiel]

The external hard drives of 2.0 are designed to be a true plug,there is need to just plug in the port and make backing up your files, music, videos and photos,these USB external hard drives are avalailable in a variety of capacities including 320GB, 500GB, 750GB, 1TB and 2TB,the external hard drives fit in the palm of your hand and require no external power cord.

[Felix46]

As compared to the usb 2.0, the External SATA (eSATA) hard drives provide additional speed for high bandwidth applications,eSATA cables are narrow and can be up to 6.56 feet (2 meters) in length, whereas parallel cables are much wider and limited to a length of 18 inches (45.7 cm),eSATA requires its own power connector.

[PeterAGASSI]

The USB 2.0 is reliable, highly compatible, and easy-to-use, USB 2.0 is limited to 480 Mb/s, which translates into 30-35 MB/s maximum bandwidth for typical storage applications,This is certainly more than enough for most device types and for casual storage use