Alec Shaner wrote: >I recently purchased a WD 160GB external USB drive and can't get it to >perform reliably on my server. It works fine when connected to my >workstation machine (a P4P800 ASUS MB with USB 2.0 support). The server >only has 1.1 USB support, but the problem is that it starts out copying >fine at about 11MB/sec and then after a bit slows to a crawl and stays >that way. I have formatted it with an ext3 filesystem. Here's all the >info if anyone has an idea. > > >
With USB 1.1 you are not going to get more than about 1.2MB/s throughput, because the top speed is 11 megabits/sec, not megabytes: 11 mbit / 8 bits-per-pyte = 1.375. The initial burst you see at 11MB/sec is likely due to buffering. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
