[ale] VelociRaptor

[Jim Kinney]

When the external drives are faster, yes, it's upgrade time!
On Aug 17, 2015 4:26 PM, "Chris Fowler" <cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:

> I have 2 300GB SATA VelociRaptor drives.  I ordered a USB 3.0 external
> enclosure from Amazon because I now have a new device I need to work on
> that has USB 3.0 ports.  It has only 8GB of space on its internal flash and
> Ubuntu will not shut up about low space.
>
> I learned today that the drive in the enclosure over USB 3.0 is almost
> 2.5x over the drive in my desktop.  I did a quit compile test on some
> software and it was 2m vs 3m to do the operation. Some days I could do that
> operation more than 50 times.  Time to upgrade the desktop!
>
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