Re: [tlug] USB3 hard disks

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

On 1 June 2014 09:44, Kalin KOZHUHAROV <me.kalin@example.com> wrote:

> According to what I read in Wikipedia [1], "USB 3.0 has transmission
> speeds of up to 5 Gbit/s" [...]
> USB is notorious for overhead [...]
> Standard drives these days rarely go above 100MB/s [...]
> various timings inside the drive and USB interface end up clogging the pipeline.

Right, which is why my back-of-the-envelope calculation said *minimum
time*, and a snipped bit of my original email said to "check the read
and write speeds of your drives".

Details are indeed important, on that we are agreed. ;)

--Josh