[iyonix-support] Re: maplin/seagate usb hard drive

In message <470db55e4e.peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
          Peter Bell <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> In message <9e87a95e4e.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>           Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I would be surprised if an Iyonix using LanMan(98) could handle the 
> > data at anywhere near the speed at which a HiSpeed USB2 connection in 
> > the NAS can deliver it. Thus it is unlikely to make any difference how 
> > the internal hard drive of the NAS is connected.
> 
> ... but I would expect to use the NAS as backup for other machines apart
> from the Iyonix (simultaneously?).  I wonder whether the Athlon 64
> machine could saturate the USB2 connection, connecting via megabit
> network?

Logic suggests that a 100 Mb/s Ethernet connection ought not to be
able to saturate a 480 Mb/s USB2 connection.  But it all depends,
as usual, on lots of non-obvious things in addition to the obvious
ones.

Dave
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