October 12th, 2009
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Originally Posted by Lord of the Rings  Thing about external drives is they are not always 100% active, they tend to sleep a little. There can be a momentary lapse in getting the drive reading which I believe is what affects LW.
| exactly...and when you need to access it, your system makes a call to it, and it wakes up...not only does this lag things it many times results in momentary freezing of the machine...
USB2 drives to NOT operate at UDMA5 capabilities, which means they are not nearly as fast as modern internal drives...
as previously noted, I use them only for storage of files already acquired, and very occasionally to let others upload from, but I never download to them....
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