[iyonix-support] Re: external USB hard disk

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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

> In article <20070427063604.158710@xxxxxxx>,
>    Jochen Konietzko <JochenKonietzko@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> 
> > a colleague just showed me an external 40 GB TrekStore hard disk (very
> > neat - organizer sized, power via USB) which he uses mostly for backup
> > purposes. For interest's sake, I plugged it into my Iyonix. Straight
> > away a new hard disk icon appeared; the root directory was visible, but
> > from then on hardly anything worked: -most files inside directories had
> > no name or a completely garbled name, -most files could not be copied -
> > DOS FS error -some files could not be copied - various error messages
> > -one directory with lots of files caused the Iyonix to freeze when I
> > opened it.
> 
> > Does this mean that external USB hard disks don't work at all on the
> > Iyonix, or that just this one doesn't work, or... what?
> 
> 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?

On Monday afternoon the backup volume was just 8GB, so, Tuesday being a public 
holiday in Germany, I simply left the backup running, and when I returned to 
work this morning, the 40 GB on my internal hard disk had just about been 
backed up - when I looked again a few minutes ago it had finished.

I am not quite sure, but I think when I squinted at the USB cable connecting 
the drive to my Iyonix, I could see individual bytes ambling leasurely along.

Is this kind of "speed" to be expected?


Regards,

Jochen
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