[iyonix-support] Re: Slow external drive

On Mon 25 Feb, Richard Ashbery wrote:
> 
> In article <Marcel-1.53-0225132646-f7fpErr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
>    Chris Evans <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sun 24 Feb, Richard Ashbery wrote:
> > > 
> > > My external 40GB USB drive takes 1 min 45 secs to initialise. Is
> > > there any way of speeding this up.
> 
> > If most of your files are large or you are expecting to use only a
> > small part of it's capacity, you could double the size of the LFAU.
> > This should halve the boot time.
> 
> I might try this; however I can only meet one of these requirements
> (only small part of disc will be used). I was going to contact you
> over this - I notice you stock external USB drives but I assume the
> same boot-up times apply to these as well.

99.99% of the time, the exception for us was a particular unit that didn't
like USB2 on the iyonix. we think it kept retrying and eventually gave up
with USB2 type access and reverted to USB 1 type, as accessing it on a USB1
only Iyonix was over a 100 times faster!



Chris Evans

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