On Sun, 2006-10-15 at 12:25 +0200, muzzol wrote:
> anyone is using an external firewire hard drive? I've Seagate 750GB firewire/usb drive. > > my main computer is a laptop and i would like to buy a drive just for > working with cinelerra but im not sure if it will serve data fast > enough. > Now it is connected via usb 'cause I use firewire for capturing and have only 1 1394 port on mobo. Usb gives: gaura-nitai ~ # hdparm -t /dev/sde /dev/sde: Timing buffered disk reads: 82 MB in 3.06 seconds = 26.81 MB/sec I did experiment with firewire and here is the result: gaura-nitai ~ # hdparm -t /dev/sde /dev/sde: Timing buffered disk reads: 72 MB in 3.07 seconds = 23.47 MB/sec Sincerely, Gour
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