Monster IDE Drives

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 20:17:36 -0500
Jerry McBride <mcbrides9 at comcast.net> wrote:

> On Saturday 14 February 2004 07:34 pm, Kurt Wall wrote:
> > In a 1.1K blaze of typing glory, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> > > 120GB a 'monster'? Naahhh.
> > >
> > > Check out the La Cie 1 TB disks. There is a new monster in town.
> > >
> > > 	http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10118
> >
> > Good grief. I don't need a $1,200 disk drive, although I could
> > probably use the disk space.
> >
> > I suppose "monster" depends on one's frame of reference.  To wit:
> > I drive Ford Focus, so my neighbor's Crown Victoria looks like
> > whale, but, next to the Hummer H2, my neighbor's Crown Victoria looks
> > like a minnow.
> >
> > Kurt
> 
> I wonder how long it would take to fill a terabyte harddrive via usb 2.0
> port?

400 MBit a second (;-)). I was (still am) hoping for a 800 MBit firewire
version. On our Iomega Peerless firewire disks, the front display shows the
actual current transfer rate. The interface is 400 MBit, but we usually get
16 MB or so. It depends on the files size. Large files result in a faster
transfer rate. All the directory fiddling for a new file seems to take a bit
of time.


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