Bus Powered Firewire 800 External HDD Enclosure?

[wpcoe]

Yes, that is a pure eSATA port, not the eSATAp.

"If all eSATAp ports accept a USB 2.0 cable, then there would have been no need for them to put a separate USB port on the unit, either."

Not necessarily. In addition, there are other USB devices that may be required at the same time, such as a mouse, an external keyboard, a thumb drive, etc., etc. My T510 has 3 USB 2 ports and the one eSATAp. All are used.

I think the confusion is that I was specifically referring to the USB port on my hdd enclosure being redundant if the SATA port were eSATAp that accepted USB, whereas you are talking about the ports on your computer, no?

 

[firefighter4443]

Thanks, Rebate Monger for the specifics. I keep my two laptops backed up to 2 Vantec externals (WDC 3.5-in HDDs). Shown here is the T510 with the eSATAp port connected to the Vantec. The T60 uses the eSATA Express card connection. Both do the job at about the same speed. All drives are 320GB. Complete clone job takes 9 minutes in either directio9n.

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I was confused by the photo of your setup. There was text over one of the Vantec Externals saying "T510 Backup" I thought T510 was the External Vantec's Model number.

 

[corkyg]

Sorry about tnat! Each Vantec external relates to a different laptop. 🙂
I think we are all clear now.

 

[firefighter4443]

I believe we are all in agreement now.

I'll make sure to take pictures when I swap out my SSD and Toshiba HDDs. Its gonna be fun, because I only have one External HDD, here's my plan:

Partition the WD 2TB external I currently have into Partition A and B, each one TB. Move all my movies and media onto partition B, to bring the internal storage requirement below 160GB.

Turn on Time Machine Backup using Partition A.

Swap out the Toshiba HDD for the new SSD, then Restore using the TMB on Partition A

Put the Toshiba in the external enclosure, format, and move the media on Partition B to the new external.

Format the WD 2TB back to one partition, and use Time machine to back up both the internal SSD and the Portable Media Drive.

That's my plan. I'll post pictures when I'm done.

 

[firefighter4443]

Does anyone know of a good Benchmark I can run on my MBP? I'm currently running OSX 10.6, and I would like to be able to post the results of some good benchmarks, for the old Toshiba and the New Intel SSD.

I know anand wrote a script to automatically launch 15 common OSX programs, so they could accuratly measure real world performance after installing an SSD, but I cannot find the article, much less the script.

I'd like to run a complete set of benchmarks if possible, and post the pre-post results to this thread.

I just don't know where to find the benchmark programs.

 

[firefighter4443]

I dont know how to quote from an article so:

***QUOTE from "The SSD Relapse: Understanding and Choosing the Best SSD, 8/30/2009"***

The drive most OEMs are now shipping is an even older, lower performing Samsung SSD based on an older controller.

I talked to some of the vendors who ship Samsung RBB based SSDs and got some sales data. They simply can’t give these drives away. The Indilinx based drives outsell those based on the Samsung RBB controller by over 40:1. If end users are smart enough to choose Indilinx and Intel, why aren't companies like Apple and Lenovo?

Don't ever opt for the SSD upgrade from any of these OEMs if you've got the option of buying your own Indilinx or Intel drive and swapping it in there. If you don't know how, post in our forums; someone will help you out.

***END QUOTE***

I had no idea the SSD's OEM's put in their computers sucked so bad.