It's not just me. http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?t=25140
> > So does SATA and so too does every single piece of hardware in, and > plugged into, every computer on the planet. > But from what I understand USB is more of a software driven level I/O protocol. For example I have NEVER experienced problems with PATA in DOS, you need no drivers to see PATA HD's, read or write to them. No problems with SATA either. >From my experiences USB storage devices are generally less reliable, either due to the chipsets, or drivers on the PC or a combination of both. I've had a problem were using a SCSI/Firewire/USB HD did not work on Apple Mac's (tried all three connections) at all, yet plug into a PC and works fine. Sometimes the HD disappears, or you disconnect safetly plug it in again and directory is lost. Others have reported corrupted partitions. One USB HD with Prolific worked fine for months, plugged it in switched it on- not found. Couple of days later it worked fine. I have a few USB HD and when they work, they work. But when they don't it takes dozens of times switching on, off, removing and might appear. I've had no problems with a river DAP. With the amount of data on HD's now, and with my experiences with USB I do not trust it. Brothers PC also problems with USB printing, if you send too much in print queue it crashes then just sends garbage to the printer. And yet with LPT printing can print pages after pages without a hitch. I also find USB ports seems to stop working over time. One example is with optical mouse with LED, plug it in and LED flickers on and off- plugged directly into port not a hub. Plug into another USB port works fine. It's not just on one computer but pretty much every single PC I've had, either with installing USB drivers or installing motherboard USB drivers. For this reason I only recommend using USB for non critical devices, such as input devices. NOT data storage, it kind of makes it pointless a USB HD is used as a backup and you're trusting the data is safe, only to find when you plug it in the whole lot is gone, partition is corrupted, or one or two directories have disappered. It may just be the chipsets, but when it spans different computers, even PC's and Mac's, and may work for weeks or months, or not at all for days- then I'd rather spend my money on something else whenre I know data hasen't wiped itself such as NAS's, or if I need to backup onto HD's I'll use the internal IDE/SATA ports, or use a file server hot swop bay again with IDE/SATA. -- badbob ------------------------------------------------------------------------ badbob's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=7358 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=57941 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
