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 Member 945 Level 11.22 Mar 2006 
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Yeah, but all USB 2.0 drives are basically standard ATA-100/133 drives with IDE->USB converter chips. The overhead from converting between the two standards overshadows any difference that cache sizes would make.
The Hitachi 7K80 isn't a very good drive IMHO, but I would still expect it to be faster than any USB 2.0 or Firewire 400 drive. A Hitachi T7K250 (which is a huge improvement over the 7K80, BTW) or any reasonably modern Western Digital Caviar should blow any removeable drive out of the water easily no matter what interface it's using. Try hooking it up with a new 80-lead IDE cable, and you'll probably notice a big jump in system performance. Most amazing jew boots |
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