[TriLUG] Laptop Hard Disk expansion

[Jason Tower]

i was doing a disk clone on a laptop this weekend using a 10/100 pcmcia 
nic and was barely getting 10mb/s.  cardbus is 32-bit and should be 
better, but 16-bit pcmcia is awfully slow compared to most other bus 
types.

jason

On Tuesday 01 June 2004 13:15, Hariharan Gopalan wrote:
> I needed to upgrade my laptop's hard disk capacity, thinking of
> getting a SATA PCMCIA and an external SATA Hard disk. wonder if the
> performance would be better than the internal 4200 RPM hard disk.
> Though the external Hard disk would be 7200RPM, and on a serial ATA,
> would the PCMCIA be a limitation to getting the full benefit of the
> SATA?
>
> also, was wondering if I would be able to boot off the external hard
> disk, that would be cool.
>
> any comments please?
> thanks
> Hari
>
>
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