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On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> 4 or 5 hours huh. I guess drives are a lot faster now. Back in the |
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> late 80's or early 90's, it took that long for those whimpy little 100Mb |
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> drives. Ooops, my ages is showing again. lol |
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I recently found a box of hard drives in my house and have been using |
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ddrescue to pull the data off of them. These drives were not that old, |
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around 1gb each. Desktop drives. I was amazed at how slow they were |
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relative to today's drives... 2MB/sec? 5MB/sec? My internet connection |
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is faster than that now. |
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Also, found a dead 5.25" Quantum hard drive... forgot how huge those |
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are. Weighed a ton and it was built like a tank. |
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Your new drive will probably go around 100-150MB/sec or so on |
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sequential writes. So you can do the math and figure out how many |
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hours that will take. |
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