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Originally Posted by Umlaaat  but is an esata card with esata external drive faster than RAID or FW 800? |
the eSATA card I've got supports RAID. eSATA is just a low-level protocol for talking to disk drives, like IDE or SCSI. RAID is implemented on top of such a protocol, so you can find RAID systems based on many different protocols.
I think that in principle eSATA is indeed faster than Firewire800 (I don't recall their bandwidths offhand), but as a practical matter I don't think there's much difference because the disk drives themselves are not fast enough to saturate either of them. I like the eSATA solution because it leaves the FW bus free for other stuff, but if you don't care about that then FW would probably be fine too. (You can get an eSATA expresscard for something like 60 USD.)
-synthoid