[geeks] The new IPC/LX, from Dell?

[Lionel Peterson]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:26 AM,  <nate at portents.com> wrote:
>> and the two eSATA ports give you some serious expansion options).
>
> eSATA has a higher peak throughput, but two eSATA ports means two eSATA
> devices (assuming the eSATA chipset doesn't support port multipliers), vs.
> FW800 which supports up to 63 devices.  The most recent drive generations
> do have real-world sustained transfer rates that exceed the peak transfer
> rate of FW800, so you might start to notice some performance differences
> vs eSATA now, so it's a matter of a bit faster vs. larger number of
> devices supported (a Mac Mini with 60 2TB hard drives hooked up would be
> some "serious expansion").
>
> - Nate
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The promotion has ended - oh well...

Lionel

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