[ale] usb drives suck

[Greg Freemyer]

Geoffrey,

USB2 should get you about 1 GB / min.

Not tool bad, but firewire or eSata is better.  My favorite is
definitely eSata.  I'm wiping 2 eSata drives right now.  The old 320GB
drive is doing only 2GB/min.  The new 500GB set to 3gbit/sec is doing
4GB a minute.  Both of these are being wiped by the same motherboard
simultaneiously, so were sending about 6 GB/min out to the drives.

fyi: A lot of servers in use still have USB-1 only interfaces.  Way,
way slower than USB-2.  I don't know the real speed, but it feels like
a GB per hour.  As soon as I realize it is USB-1, I look for another
way.  Even 10mbit/sec eithernet is faster than USB-1 I think.

Greg

On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> Maybe I don't have a good understanding of these things, but every time
> I try to write a substantial amount of data, gigs of data, it seems to
> take forever and the load average is through the roof.  Mostly it's %wait.
>
> Am I expecting more then these things are capable of?
>
> --
> Until later, Geoffrey
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