On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 10:11 AM, David Dyer-Bennet <d...@dd-b.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, February 17, 2009 17:35, David Magda wrote: > > > Personally I recommend using FireWire whenever > > possible. > > I haven't tested performance on Solaris. > > But I bought into the Firewire hype, and put firewire cards into my two > Linux servers for access to my external hard drives, and also used it on > my Windows desktop and laptop boxes. That's at least three different > external enclosure models and three different controllers. > > None of them seemed to be noticeably faster than USB. > > So I've stopped buying firewire. > > -- > Odd, my firewire enclosure transfers are north of 50MB/sec, while the same drive in a USB enclosure is lucky to break 25MB/sec. You sure your local disk isn't just dog slow? --Tim
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