[Gllug] Current advice for HD purchase ...

[Peter Corlett]

On 1 Mar 2009, at 19:10, Karanbir Singh wrote:
[...]
> usb2 speeds are still higher than what one might expect from a single
> spindle disk

"One" might like to try some modern disks, then.

The USB 2 wire speed is 60MB/s, but protocol overhead means that the  
useful maximum throughput is about 30MB/s in practice.

The 160GB Seagate disks I bought in 2005 can read off the platter at  
60MB/s. When replaced with 500GB disks in 2008, the performance went  
up to 100MB/s.


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