Re: bkbits.net is down

Brian Jackson
2003-06-29T14:54:29Z

I don't really care which is faster, so please don't cc me in any replieds to
this thread, I 'm just telling my experience.

I've tried OpenGFS on an external firewire hard drive, and I got 13 MB/s(it
was read, but it shows that the bus can at least handle that much) on a
WD310100 (which is a pretty old 10GB udma33 hard drive). That would probably
be even better with ext2 or some fs other than OpenGFS.

--Brian Jackson

On Sunday 29 June 2003 05:24 am, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote:
> Hello Daniel ,
>
> On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Daniel Egger wrote:
> > Am Sam, 2003-06-28 um 22.31 schrieb Alan Cox:
> > > I'm testing the USB2 disk idea at the moment. Big problem is
> > > performance - 5Mbytes/second isnt the best backup rate in the world.
> >
> > Which are 300Mbytes/minute, still faster than many tapes.
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 5MB/Sec is faster than MOST tapes drivs ? Or ???
> If you are talking older scsi-2 or 1 drives yes .
> But on a properly tuned system any of the newer tape drives s/b
> able beat that hands down .
>
> > I've also made the experience that IEEE1394 (aka Firewire/iLink) is
> > always faster than USB2.
>
> I'd like to see a raising hands that have this functional at
> anywhere near line (60% is close enough) rate ?
> Tia , JimL

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