Monster IDE Drives

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 09:01:56 -0500 (EST)
Net Llama! <netllama at linux-sxs.org> wrote:

> 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?

Probably. But it is communication with the disk of other than actual file
content. I would imagine that the disk would also seek when writing data. So
it is more than that. Could in fact only be a firewire driver thing on Linux
and not the disk at all.


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