On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 08:04:02PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > ... external USB hard drive, I'm getting a consistent 30MBps, > > ... is 30MBps about as good as I can get from the combination of the > > USB software and hardware? > > 30 MB/s is good for USB. You need Firewire, eSATA, or an internal drive > to go faster.
This is my understanding as well. Usb has good peek bandwidth but not
sustained, which is why we have firewire
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