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On 12/19/05, Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> On 12/19/05, Drake Donahue <donahue95@×××××××.net> wrote: |
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> > usb2.0 external hard drive has to be feasible. less than a $100 for 80gb. |
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> > nominal 60MB/sec. |
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> > usb2.0\1394b external hard drive. less than $300 for 300 gb. nominal |
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> > 60MB\80MB/sec. |
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> Using what hardware? I've used more than a dozen different models of |
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> USB2/1394 hard drives on 4 different PCs and have never seen one |
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> exceed 30MB/s in actual thoughput, although the same disks installed |
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> internally exceed 60MB/s. |
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> -Richard |
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Yeah, you won't get much more than 30MB/S out of any 1394a drive on |
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Linux, and even then you may have to set gap count by hand to get |
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there. However, faster 1394 performance is available in Linux. Here's |
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my 1394b drive: |
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lightning ~ # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb |
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/dev/sdb: |
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Timing cached reads: 2252 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1125.44 MB/sec |
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Timing buffered disk reads: 172 MB in 3.03 seconds = 56.72 MB/sec |
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lightning ~ # |
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- Mark |
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