[Gllug] USB Discs

[Daniel Andersson]

> 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.

not sure if my IDE disk is typical, but

/dev/hdc1:
 Timing buffered disk reads:  64 MB in  7.27 seconds =  8.80 MB/sec


that's not 100 times faster than 12MB/s

/ d

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