On 07/01/2014 10:58:45 AM, Dale wrote:
Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 07/01/2014 10:30:44 AM, Dale wrote:
>>
>> I been wanting to get me something external but hadn't got around
to
>> looking yet. I didn't know they have a SATA version. I plan to
avoid
>> USB if I can. From my understanding, eSATA can be hotplugged and
I have
>> a couple of those connections.
>>
>
> I 'believe' that eSATA is dead - just look how few products are
> available.
> I have 3 USB-3 drives which are very fast (more than 100 MB/sec) and
> if your motherboard doesn't have an USB-3 adapter, yet, it's very
cheap.
>
> Helmut
I do have a few USB3 connectors. I just figured USB would be a good
bit
slower. Plus, can USB power a 3.5" hard drive nowadays?
Probably not. All of my external USB3 disks have a separate power
supply.
root@fireball / # hdparm -tT /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb:
Timing cached reads: 6604 MB in 2.00 seconds = 3303.39 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 542 MB in 3.01 seconds = 180.33 MB/sec
root@fireball / #
Try a real life example like dd. I have seen the above mentioned speed
on disks with a file system on it which does limit the speed anyway.
I did find a eSATA enclosure on Newegg and the price wasn't bad. It's
one option I guess.
Dale
:-) :-)
