Paul Hartman wrote: > 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. > >
It won't be that fast. The drive supports 6Gbs/sec but my mobo is only 3Gbs/sec. I hope to upgrade my mobo at some point. Then maybe the ram and CPU. I been looking at those 8 core CPUs a bit. The prices are coming down slowly. Anyway, I'll only get the 3Gbs/sec for now. I used to have a couple of those really old 14 inch hard drives. I think I sold them for scrap a few years ago. They were mostly aluminium if I recall correctly. They were only a few megabytes but they sure was big. Our age is showing. lol I bet folks know I am not a teenager now. ;-) Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!
