Improved performance with USB 2.0
I've been looking for how to improve the performance of my computer and I have an idea. ATA133 hard drives transfer at 133 megabytes per second and the new SATA only move it up to 150 megabytes per second. that doesn't look impressive and i've heard that it really isn't. but USB 2.0 is capable of transfering at 480Mbps. I've tested with a small USB flash drive and on linux, or at least mine, it is set to wait until unmounting the hard drive before writing anything to it. If I can change that setting to write to the hard drive as soon as it is requested is there any reason I can't get a large USB 2.0 hard drive (like 80GB) and have a higher transfer rate than a normal hard drive. I think I would still have to have an ATA hard drive for the MBR and the /boot partition, but I should be able to put my / on USB.
p.s. I realize not all USB 2.0 hard drives will transfer at full speed, I did find one that says it transfers at 480Mbps at TigerDirect
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