Re: [tlug] USB drive speed

[Curt Sampson <cjs@example.com>]

On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Darren Cook wrote:

> I tried formatting a 250GB hard disk that is connected by USB2...

> However it seems to only be half the speed of an IDE drive...
> [ 56 MB/sec vs. 26 MB/sec ]

That seems right. I see read and write rates of about 25 MB/sec when
using an FFS filesystem on a USB drive on my NetBSD boxes; internal 7200
RPM IDE drives tend to be around 40 - 60 MB/sec, depending on the age of
the drive.

cjs
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