Thanks and thanks :)<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 04/10/2007, <b class="gmail_sendername">gordon dunlop</b> <<a href="mailto:gordon@zubenel.freeserve.co.uk">gordon@zubenel.freeserve.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Chris, one thing I forgot to mention is that Virtualbox has not got the<br>SCSI support that VMWare server has (it is swings and roundabouts
<br>between the two). Best to try both to see which is best for using an<br>external USB (Sata) drive if your are not intending to use your laptop<br>hard disk.<br><br>Gordon<br><br><br>James Young wrote:<br>><br>> Andrew just posted up. Yep eSATA is good; ideally dumping a pcmcia
<br>> firewire/ esata in there will significantly improve performance. I'd<br>> use <a href="http://www.span.com">www.span.com</a> as I've used these guys in the past and what they do<br>> know their disks. If you must stick with USB2 go for a disk with the
<br>> most cache you can. A nice enclosure and a seagate 7200.11 with 32mb<br>> cache. Actually, eSata is so good that even your FCAL drives can't<br>> look at maxing the bus out. I'm thinking esata is about hybrid drives.
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