Re: [tlug] USB2 external HDD

[Evan Monroig <evan.monroig@example.com>]

Darren Cook <darren@example.com> writes:

>>> I have one of 80GB, connected by USB2 on gentoo, and I didn't do any
>>> optimization. "hdparm -t /dev/sda1" gives a buffered disk read of
>>> about 25 MB/sec.  I guess that's not really fast (internal disk has
>>> 50+ MB/sec), but not slow enough that I would notice, since I use it
>>> only for backup file transfer between computers.
>
> Thanks for the replies. You are writing more than 1G in a session with
> no problems?

I did that several times and had no problem, but if you have a command
to create appropriate 1G+ files and reproduce your problem, I am willing
to try it on the USB2 disk(s) that I have.

Cheers,

Evan