Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265618AbTF2KKT (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2003 06:10:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265619AbTF2KKT (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2003 06:10:19 -0400 Received: from filesrv1.baby-dragons.com ([199.33.245.55]:17559 "EHLO filesrv1.baby-dragons.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265618AbTF2KKP (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jun 2003 06:10:15 -0400 Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 06:24:28 -0400 (EDT) From: "Mr. James W. Laferriere" To: Daniel Egger cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: bkbits.net is down In-Reply-To: <1056867876.11843.1.camel@sonja> Message-ID: References: <20030627163720.GF357@zip.com.au> <1056732854.3172.56.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030627235150.GA21243@work.bitmover.com> <20030627165519.A1887@beaverton.ibm.com> <20030628001625.GC18676@work.bitmover.com> <20030627205140.F29149@newbox.localdomain> <20030628031920.GF18676@work.bitmover.com> <1056827655.6295.22.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030628191847.GB8158@work.bitmover.com> <20030628193857.GH841@gallifrey> <1056832290.6289.44.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> <1056867876.11843.1.camel@sonja> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1380 Lines: 29 Hello Daniel , On Sun, 29 Jun 2003, Daniel Egger wrote: > Am Sam, 2003-06-28 um 22.31 schrieb Alan Cox: > > I'm testing the USB2 disk idea at the moment. Big problem is performance > > - 5Mbytes/second isnt the best backup rate in the world. > Which are 300Mbytes/minute, still faster than many tapes. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 5MB/Sec is faster than MOST tapes drivs ? Or ??? If you are talking older scsi-2 or 1 drives yes . But on a properly tuned system any of the newer tape drives s/b able beat that hands down . > I've also made the experience that IEEE1394 (aka Firewire/iLink) is > always faster than USB2. I'd like to see a raising hands that have this functional at anywhere near line (60% is close enough) rate ? Tia , JimL -- +------------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | P.O. Box 854 | Give me Linux | | babydr@baby-dragons.com | Coudersport PA 16915 | only on AXP | +------------------------------------------------------------------+ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/