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Re: To mirror a huge tree...



On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 08:04:02PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > ... external USB hard drive, I'm getting a consistent 30MBps,
> > ... is 30MBps about as good as I can get from the combination of the 
> > USB software and hardware?
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> 30 MB/s is good for USB.  You need Firewire, eSATA, or an internal drive
> to go faster.

This is my understanding as well. Usb has good peek bandwidth but not
sustained, which is why we have firewire

Alex

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