[Gllug] USB Discs

[Stephen Harker]

Tethys wrote:
> "t.clarke" writes:
> 
> 
>>Don't know what the performance of Hard Discs over USB is like
> 
> 
> Poor. USB is IIRC 12Mb/s, i.e., well over 100 times slower than a
> typical SCSI or IDE disk. Firewire drives, while still slow compared
> to "Real" disks, are at least much better at 400Mb/s -- comparable
> to internal hard disks of a few years ago.

I'm hoping to get a USB 2.0 drive which is supposed to go at 480 Mb/s 
and be backwards compatible with older USB 1.1 ports. Absolute speed is 
not essential for me as it's mainly for archiving purposes. I don't 
intend running a database off it thats for sure :-)
Steve


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