Classic running out of memory... huh? what? <long>

[Lloyd Kvam]

On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 16:50 -0400, Thomas Charron wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Lloyd Kvam<python at venix.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 13:41 -0400, bruce.labitt at autoliv.com wrote:
> >> I bet it won't do 480Mbits sustained.
> >> (For a 10 GB file write) However, I just might try it for the heck of
> >> it!
> > I use external USB and firewire drives fairly regularly.  USB does not
> > come close to achieving 48 MB / sec.  Firewire (400 mb flavor) does
> > noticeably better than USB.
> 
>   There are SO many variables in the case of USB, you can't just
> blankey statement that USB doesn't come close to achieving it.

True.  My experience is based on external drives with both USB and
Firewire.  In comparing the two interfaces, I simply switched cables and
copied the data.  Timings were simply based on watching the clock.
Firewire was consistently faster than USB.

I did the timings when I misplaced the firewire cable, used the USB
cable, and was surprised that the copy seemed to take longer.  I found
the firewire cable and ran a few comparisons.

> 
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