[iyonix-support] Re: external USB hard disk
- From: Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 12:00:18 +0100
In message of 2 May, "Jochen Konietzko" <JochenKonietzko@xxxxxx> wrote:
<snip>
> 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?
Just for a comparison, yesterday I installed a Firewire-linked disc
under my Mac Mini and it took about two hours to backup 22 Gbytes.
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