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Re: [Sheflug] backup to USB Hard drives and partitioning



On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 00:06, Gary Stimson wrote:
> At 21:30 12/08/2004 +0100, you wrote:
> >Yes you can use any filesystem and partition them under Linux.
> 
> How does the read/write speed compare with using the on-board parallel IDE 
> interface?
> 

Well it's never going to be as fast since the enclosure is connected to
USB1.1, the drive onboard is ATA-100.
 
/dev/hda:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  132 MB in  3.02 seconds =  43.77 MB/sec
 
/dev/sda:
 Timing buffered disk reads:   44 MB in  3.05 seconds =  14.42 MB/sec

From a practical point I've never found the speed a problem, but it is
mostly used for listening to music at work rather than anything more
demanding.
-- 
Regards,
Adam Allen.

adam [at] dynamicinteraction.co.uk
pgp http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x553349DB

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