Ends 2/22 at 8AM PT. eBay with Buy.com has the Seagate STCA4000100 4TB USB 3.0 Backup Plus Desktop External Hard Drive for $150 with free shipping. Goes for $176+ elsewhere. Features one-click custom backup and transfer speeds of up to up to 5 Gbit/sec.
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This is a great drive that once formatted to ext4 runs perfect on Linux at an average temp of 109 degrees F at idle, and 129 degrees F at full stress. Nice case. The speeds will NOT be any faster if you crack the case open (literally, you ruin it), and plug it directly into my motherboard, so run them in the case they came in and use USB3.
Cheapest 4TB out there right now, even at the 164 dollars it currently is listed for an Amozon.
No 4tbTbare drive is cheaper right now either.
^ SATA 6Gb outperforms USB3 even with a mechanical HDD, particularly in random access. USB just has more overhead, and the host processing requirement too.
Granted if you need a 4TB drive, odds are you have a lot of large files so for the typical uses of a product like this it won't make as much difference as if running the OS from it or use as a database volume.
hmm, ok , you got me on this one.
Audio is my real game. I wonder why I always thought there was no speed difference.
Is there a HUGE difference in read/write speed usb3 versus sata6?
It depends on the access patterns, USB host controller, driver version, etc.. In some benchmarks the minimum read and write speed will be a lot higher with SATA, even SATA 1.5Gb, but the max will be close to the same. Generally speaking if you're dealing with a lot of files under a few MB each, SATA is the way to go but it doesn't make USB3 a slouch either... it's still a lot faster in real world use than USB2.
Gone...
Thanks for the info dave_c
D-a-v-e .. ty