[iyonix-support] Re: external USB hard disk

On Wed 02 May, Peter Dowson wrote:
> 
> In article <20070502092910.45940@xxxxxxx>, Jochen Konietzko
> <JochenKonietzko@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- Datum: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:22:18
> > +0800 Von: Peter Dowson <p_dowson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> An:
> > iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Betreff: [iyonix-support] Re: external USB
> > hard disk
> 
> [Snip]
> 
> > > 
> > > I use a Vantec NextStar USB case to hold an IDE hard drive and then
> > > ran SCSIForm to initialise the drive, it will slow down the boot time
> > > quite a lot though. I then use SyncDiscs to make a copy of the main
> > > drive on a regular bases, you will find it a lot slower than a second
> > > hard drive other than the speed or lack of it works fine. ---
> 
> > Thanks for the answer; I bought a 120 MB Trekstore disk, formatted it on
> > Monday before work and started the backup at 8 a.m.
> 
> > This leads me to a question: Just how slow is the lack of speed you
> > mention in YOUR setup?
> 
> > Is this kind of "speed" to be expected?
> 
> Cannot tell you how slow it was the first time I left it running over
> night but when doing a backup after the first time it takes one to two
> hours, the disc has about 66G used. You are a lot better of backing up to
> a caddy or use a NAS connected drive, I'm just in the process of going
> from caddy's to a NAS solution.

We did found that a Western Digital Passport USB harddrive transferred data
at 2 or 3% of the speed of other USB harddrives.

Chris Evans

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