external drive replacement

[djlee]

Hello, I have scsi ext. drive. It's old and want to get a faster
drive. I've heard that I can replace the internal drive inside.
That way I can keep external scsi.
The question is if I should get scsi internal drive?
I don't know if the external scsi is just a case or it applied to
the intenal drive, too. Thanks for your help in advance.

 

[shadoe_phantom]

Not making sense to me. You said "I can replace the internal drive inside. That way I can keep external". ummm will skip that as that part makes no sense to me.
Second part, SCSI drives are faster & better than IDE drives. So yes, if you can afford one, why not get it if you want your PC to run faster with certain applications & file transfers (HDD to HDD or through LAN *not internet lol).
The external HDD is just a seperate drive. It will only apply to the internal in a couple of ways.
As a slave to the internal drive or as it's raid counter-part. But I suspect it is only the slave as per your setup.
Raiding is not recommended nor needed for SCSI drives (as only IDE drives get any real bennefits from RAID).
Anyhow, I hope I didn't lose you, but if you have anymore questions, post again.

 

[djlee]

Sorry, I should have been more specific. I'm going to start it again.
I want to replace the drive which is inside my external scsi case.
For example, let's say Firewire(IEEE1394) external drive. I know
the drive itself inside case is IDE type drive even though the case
is linked to computer through firewire. So you can pick up any
IDE cdrw drive and replace with it.
But I don't know I can do that with my external scsi cdrw.
What I wanted to do is to buy cheep IDE internal cdrw and put
it into my external scsi case.

 

[feckewe]

The simple answer is no, the drive inside the external case is scsi and has a scsi interface so an ide writer will not be compatible. What you can do though is buy an inernal scsi cdrw and put that inside the external case.