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- Oct 11, 2012
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- Gigabyte Z390 Aorus Ultra
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- i7-9700K
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- RX 580
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Hi Everyone,
Wanted to get your thoughts on something. I have a LOT of photos and music, so I have a 3TB storage drive on my Hack, 1TB external (plugged in through eSATA), and a 2TB external which has FW800 or USB 2.0. The USB 2.0 is really slow, but my Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H only had a FW400 port, so I bought a FW400/FW800 cable. The drive stalls and ejects pretty consistently, so I've reverted back to USB 2.0.
Options:
Buy a cheap FW PCI card (which I've read people have had issues with because it's a Texas Instruments part) - $23
Buy a expensive FW PCI card (Startech), $63
Buy a new hard drive with USB 3.0 - $100
The 1TB external I have transfers nicely via eSata, but the drive is loud (older WD Mybook or something like that). My 2TB is nice, it's an Iomega eGo Silver Desktop Mac Edition, which runs great via FW800 with my iMac. I see the prices drop somewhat on USB 3.0, I saw a 3TB at Costco for like $100. Just wondering what you think? Has anyone been able to fix the issues with the Gigabyte FW port, or is that more of a hardware issue?
Also, silly question, but is USB 3.0 fully supported in ML? I don't have any 3.0 devices, so I've never tried, but my computer case has a port for it and my mobo has several slots for it. Thanks!
Wanted to get your thoughts on something. I have a LOT of photos and music, so I have a 3TB storage drive on my Hack, 1TB external (plugged in through eSATA), and a 2TB external which has FW800 or USB 2.0. The USB 2.0 is really slow, but my Gigabyte Z77X-UD5H only had a FW400 port, so I bought a FW400/FW800 cable. The drive stalls and ejects pretty consistently, so I've reverted back to USB 2.0.
Options:
Buy a cheap FW PCI card (which I've read people have had issues with because it's a Texas Instruments part) - $23
Buy a expensive FW PCI card (Startech), $63
Buy a new hard drive with USB 3.0 - $100
The 1TB external I have transfers nicely via eSata, but the drive is loud (older WD Mybook or something like that). My 2TB is nice, it's an Iomega eGo Silver Desktop Mac Edition, which runs great via FW800 with my iMac. I see the prices drop somewhat on USB 3.0, I saw a 3TB at Costco for like $100. Just wondering what you think? Has anyone been able to fix the issues with the Gigabyte FW port, or is that more of a hardware issue?
Also, silly question, but is USB 3.0 fully supported in ML? I don't have any 3.0 devices, so I've never tried, but my computer case has a port for it and my mobo has several slots for it. Thanks!