An Intresting Product Review On Newegg.com! (RANT)

I know it has been some time since I written anything on this blog but have some time on my hands so I am.

My subject today is An Interesting Product Review On Newegg.com. (RANT)

The other night I was reviewing some products on New Egg's website and came across a external powered, multi hard drive,  USB2.0 adaptor. What this adaptor does is allows us to transfer data, partitions and the entire drive to an external hard drive without using an enclosure, there are several different companies that make these adaptors. They work with both 3.5/2.5inch PATA hard drives and any sata hard drive.

I have one myself and have used it several times to clone a failing hard drive; the problem lies in the fact that we are using a USB2.0 port to do this well not all computer have the fast USB 2 port many depending on the year of manufacture have a "High Speed" USB port which is about 260 kbs as apposed to the fast USB2.0 port of what is suppose to be around 460kbs. Depending on the chip set of the controller.

We who have read any motherboard spec. sheet know that USB2.0 ports are backward compatible with the original USB1.1 that the new industry standard USB3.0 is in theory also backwards compatible to a USB1.1 port. Is very slow upwards of 10 hours to clone a 80gig PATA hard drive I know from experience using the USB2.0 port on my old PATA Acer Aspire 5100.

My 3.0USB external 320gig will not work with my laptop; the power LED will not even light up but will work on any of my desktop PC USB2.0 rear ports; for information only.

On with the story of the review of one of these adaptors on newegg.com the guy was irate as to the speed of the hard drives with the antiquated equipment and amusingly stated that SATA hard drives were around before USB2.0 ports and that the maker of the product should not insult the buyer with this outdated electronics.

Hay dude! Where did you come up with this the industry released the first SATA hard drives in early 2008 and they were 1.5 gig transfer speed. later the SATA 2; 3.0 gig hard drives and it was a couple of years ago that we received the SATA3; 6gig hard drives. This is 2012 that is only 4 years, look how far we have come. My first build used a SATA hard drive and that was in 2009.

I have 2 of the 1.5gig hard drives in 2 different computers that were purchased in 2008.

I have an ASUS motherboard I removed from a Compact 7360 Pesaro that has 2.0USB ports that had Windows 98 installed on the hard drive that I am now using in a different case as well as the AMD K6-2 processor in my FREENAS (which can be viewed on Youtube the video of or my previous post below) how old is that motherboard? I will let you tell me! This processor is equal to a P3 Intel.

USB2.0 has been around for a long time and there are actually very few products that are USB3.0 on the market now near 3 years since the introduction. Most motherboard manufactures offer 2; USB3.0 ports and 3, USB2.0 port today.

One last note; Newegg.com is a very good supplier of computer part I have purchase from them often.

Hope you enjoyed this as much as I did in writing.