Best adapter/interface for My Book

I've just bought a WD External My Book 500GB for use with Win2000 Pro
to backup internal HDs. The device is compatible with USB 2.0, Firewire 400,
and eSATA interfaces. Platform is Dell workstation and I need to use a PCI slot.
What is the best PCI adapter for this drive system?

-ed

Previously edwinn.maps@bkwds.com wrote:

> I've just bought a WD External My Book 500GB for use with Win2000
> Pro to backup internal HDs. The device is compatible with USB 2.0,
> Firewire 400, and eSATA interfaces. Platform is Dell workstation and
> I need to use a PCI slot. What is the best PCI adapter for this
> drive system?

Depends on what you want. USB is easiest to handle and on
the driver side. eSATA is fastest, but you may not get hot-plugging
if you buy the wrong hardware. FireWire is well engioneered, but
not mainstreram on the PC, so you should probably not use it.

On the plus side, you can use them all (not concurrently),
as the on-disk format does not interact with the interface used.

Arno

Arno Wagner wrote in news:6fq3buFcn4t1U1@mid.individual.net
> Previously edwinn.maps@bkwds.com wrote:
>
> > I've just bought a WD External My Book 500GB for use with Win2000
> > Pro to backup internal HDs. The device is compatible with USB 2.0,
> > Firewire 400, and eSATA interfaces. Platform is Dell workstation and
> > I need to use a PCI slot. What is the best PCI adapter for this drive
> > system?
>
> Depends on what you want.

> USB is easiest to handle and on the driver side.

When will you ever learn to finish a sentence, Babblebot.

> eSATA is fastest, but you may not get hot-plugging if you buy the wrong
> hardware.

Like that's any different for USB and FW.

> FireWire is well engioneered, but not mainstreram on the PC, so you should probably not use it.

Like that if you have a problem with USB there's a simple solution
that won't be there if that happens for FW.

>
> On the plus side, you can use them all (not concurrently),
> as the on-disk format does not interact with the interface used.
>
> Arno

On 5 Aug 2008 04:30:54 GMT, Arno Wagner <me@privacy.net> brought the following to our
attention:

>Previously edwinn.maps@bkwds.com wrote:
>
>> I've just bought a WD External My Book 500GB for use with Win2000
>> Pro to backup internal HDs. The device is compatible with USB 2.0,
>> Firewire 400, and eSATA interfaces. Platform is Dell workstation and
>> I need to use a PCI slot. What is the best PCI adapter for this
>> drive system?
>
>Depends on what you want. USB is easiest to handle and on
>the driver side. eSATA is fastest, but you may not get hot-plugging
>if you buy the wrong hardware. FireWire is well engioneered, but
>not mainstreram on the PC, so you should probably not use it.
>
>On the plus side, you can use them all (not concurrently),
>as the on-disk format does not interact with the interface used.
>
>Arno

Thanks for that. Who is squeeze guy? I bought a NEC 5.1 USB
2.0 card (NEC chip) and an Adaptec AFW-1394 FireWire (to PCI)
card. Both are installed and working ok.

I think the USB uses more drivers or virtual devices as seen in
Computer Manager, Hardware. It has three or four CM objects
including a `hub.´ Both cards used native Win2000 drivers.

Am having a lot of trouble with long filenames, and errors which halt
the transfer. One time I got a pop-up dialog that, when I took the
suggested `short´ filename, redirected the transfer to the C:\ drive.
It filled up the C:\ drive and then failed!!!

Comments please.

-Ed


Now I'm getting