Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Jun 2003 06:24:28 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <> | Subject | Re: bkbits.net is down |
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Hello Daniel ,
On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Daniel Egger wrote: > Am Sam, 2003-06-28 um 22.31 schrieb Alan Cox: > > I'm testing the USB2 disk idea at the moment. Big problem is performance > > - 5Mbytes/second isnt the best backup rate in the world. > Which are 300Mbytes/minute, still faster than many tapes. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 5MB/Sec is faster than MOST tapes drivs ? Or ??? If you are talking older scsi-2 or 1 drives yes . But on a properly tuned system any of the newer tape drives s/b able beat that hands down .
> I've also made the experience that IEEE1394 (aka Firewire/iLink) is > always faster than USB2. I'd like to see a raising hands that have this functional at anywhere near line (60% is close enough) rate ? Tia , JimL -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | P.O. Box 854 | Give me Linux | | babydr@baby-dragons.com | Coudersport PA 16915 | only on AXP | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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