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Title: eSATA - if you don't already use it for external drives, you should.
Post by: inbound on March 03, 2011, 08:57:53 PM

Got a new external drive today, chose eSATA after seeing that USB3 doesn't handle lots of small files as well as it does large transfers.

(bear in mind both ends are commodity mechanical drives rather than SSD's) A copy of 486GB (63,000 items) is happily progressing at 100MB/sec - makes regular local back-ups a painless process.

I'm sure that could be improved dramatically (say using raid on both ends and 6Gbit SATA) but for simple drive to drive connections eSATA is ideal.

Title: Re: eSATA - if you don't already use it for external drives, you should.
Post by: bill on March 08, 2011, 06:07:04 AM

Do the new machines have eSATA ports, or did you have to add that yourself?

Title: Re: eSATA - if you don't already use it for external drives, you should.
Post by: inbound on March 08, 2011, 09:34:22 AM

My PC is 2 years old and came with an eSATA port (it's a Dell i7 based system). I think eSATA adaptors are cheap if you don't have one on your pc.

Title: Re: eSATA - if you don't already use it for external drives, you should.
Post by: ergophobe on March 08, 2011, 04:48:05 PM

I read this just after buying a 2TB USB2 drive, which of course takes forever and a day when doing a full backup.

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