Monster IDE Drives

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 20:17:36 -0500
> > 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.

By "directory fiddling", you mean disk seek time, right?

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