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<blockquote data-quote="azhrei_fje" data-source="post: 4005480" data-attributes="member: 12966">I haven't seen that large a price difference in USB-only vs. dual-bus.&nbsp; I have three SanMax enclosures (HD-229-CBB) for my older 2.5&quot; laptop drives (160GB, 100GB, 60GB; I have more drives, but they're not worth putting in an enclosure!).I travel a lot and like to suck video off my TiVo and onto my laptop for viewing on the road.&nbsp; Using an external is a toss-up, though:&nbsp; use the external drive for storing/playing standard def video and pay for the power to run it, or clutter the internal drive with files of 1GB+ each (after transcoding from MPEG2 to MPEG4) and eat up my internal drive space. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />&nbsp; I don't have my perfect solution for this yet...The other issue that was discussed here awhile back, IIRC, was &quot;Which filesystem to use for external drives&quot; when the data will be shared with multiple operating systems.&nbsp; FAT32 has numerous issues but is very portable, while ext3 has journalling but only works natively on Linux, and HPFS only works natively on Macs.&nbsp; Yuck. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="azhrei_fje, post: 4005480, member: 12966"] I haven't seen that large a price difference in USB-only vs. dual-bus. I have three SanMax enclosures (HD-229-CBB) for my older 2.5" laptop drives (160GB, 100GB, 60GB; I have more drives, but they're not worth putting in an enclosure!). I travel a lot and like to suck video off my TiVo and onto my laptop for viewing on the road. Using an external is a toss-up, though: use the external drive for storing/playing standard def video and pay for the power to run it, or clutter the internal drive with files of 1GB+ each (after transcoding from MPEG2 to MPEG4) and eat up my internal drive space. :( I don't have my perfect solution for this yet... The other issue that was discussed here awhile back, IIRC, was "Which filesystem to use for external drives" when the data will be shared with multiple operating systems. FAT32 has numerous issues but is very portable, while ext3 has journalling but only works natively on Linux, and HPFS only works natively on Macs. Yuck. :( [/QUOTE]

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