Don't be so patronising.

I was merely following your lead. You really aren't remotely in a position to criticise anyone for being patronising.

You hadn't done your research (again). For once, man up and admit it.

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Well PCs have always favoured the cheap rubbish. That's okay for most people but I expect more than that.

It's 2011 and USB (version 3 and previous versions) still sucks CPU cycles as the controllers are cheap and don't have DMA. There's no excuse for it as the Amiga in 1985 had DMA!

Agreed - USB is good for keyboards/mice and low capacity storage sticks - but for real data transfer you can't beat eSATA or Gigabit Ethernet - hopefully Thunderbolt will let me connect eSATA to my Macbook Pro eventually, as I've got a few drives about.

Anything is better than USB so long as it is an intelligent controller and not a CPU burden.

USB was a good solution to the problem of lots of legacy junk. But firewire should have taken off too, but the licence fees were too excessive.

I ran a SATA cable in my Mac Pro to a backplane with eSATA connector. It didn't work too well though. Might be an iffy cable.

Mac Pro with more than 2 drives was too noisy, the case is built too solid and not enough dampening. Although mine is a 2007 model and they may have fixed that.

Of course I can just slap in a few SSDs now, but I've only just stuck one in my laptop.

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Mac Pro with more than 2 drives was too noisy, the case is built too solid and not enough dampening. Although mine is a 2007 model and they may have fixed that.

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They certainly have just by including soft rubber washers for the drive caddy screws - that's if you suffered the same noise I did with vibration. The newer ones have a much different internal layout which seems to enable the fans to work less hard to keep it cool during processor intensive tasks.

The problem I had was as soon as you locked the case it would oscillate. But 7200 RPM drives are a bit noisy.

Even in an external case some drives are noisy. But you can at least place the unit on a cardboard box or a towel.

Yes oscillation was the problem I had, but I found it was all down to the tension of the drive caddy screws in my case, and once I'd got that right it was fine