| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - USB contention will kill any gains you made, especially if you choose to RAID-stripe your data, because there is effectively 1 bus and N spindles to shuttle down that single bus. eSATA will at least restrict how many spindles are shuttled over a single interconnect; SATA port expanders that give 4:1 are not uncommon, which means a whole lot less contention.
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