On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > 4 or 5 hours huh. I guess drives are a lot faster now. Back in the > late 80's or early 90's, it took that long for those whimpy little 100Mb > drives. Ooops, my ages is showing again. lol
I recently found a box of hard drives in my house and have been using ddrescue to pull the data off of them. These drives were not that old, around 1gb each. Desktop drives. I was amazed at how slow they were relative to today's drives... 2MB/sec? 5MB/sec? My internet connection is faster than that now. Also, found a dead 5.25" Quantum hard drive... forgot how huge those are. Weighed a ton and it was built like a tank. Your new drive will probably go around 100-150MB/sec or so on sequential writes. So you can do the math and figure out how many hours that will take.
