With the flick of a switch, my storage capacity goes from 1760.57 GB to 
2692.08 GB.  With my computer still on.

That's just crazy.

It's going to take a day to get files rearranged, because while it 
started at 47 MB/s, it's now trudging at like 13.

That's just crazy.

:P

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Tim Cook wrote:
> With the flick of a switch, my storage capacity goes from 1760.57 GB to 
> 2692.08 GB.  With my computer still on.

How'd you manage that?  Details, mon, Details!

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Darren New wrote:
> Tim Cook wrote:
>> With the flick of a switch, my storage capacity goes from 1760.57 GB 
>> to 2692.08 GB.  With my computer still on.
> 
> How'd you manage that?  Details, mon, Details!

Added a 1 TB external USB drive.  Cost:  $209.11 incl. shipping.

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Tim Cook wrote:

> Added a 1 TB external USB drive.  Cost:  $209.11 incl. shipping.

IME, USB harddrives are drastically slower than even the lamest IDE one...

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Tim Cook wrote:
> 
>> Added a 1 TB external USB drive.  Cost:  $209.11 incl. shipping.
> 
> IME, USB harddrives are drastically slower than even the lamest IDE one...
> 

If I can find it, I'll measure the speed of my 81MB Maxtor IDE drive, 
and we'll see.

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On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:10:07 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:

> Tim Cook wrote:
> 
>> Added a 1 TB external USB drive.  Cost:  $209.11 incl. shipping.
> 
> IME, USB harddrives are drastically slower than even the lamest IDE
> one...

I dunno, I've got two 1 TB USB drives; on USB 1.1 it's painful, but on 
USB 2.0 it's not too bad.  I tend to use them for archival purposes more 
than anything, but when I do the transfers in the office (local backup of 
materials since I work from home most of the time), the performance isn't 
bad.

Jim

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Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> Tim Cook wrote:
> 
>> Added a 1 TB external USB drive.  Cost:  $209.11 incl. shipping.
> 
> IME, USB harddrives are drastically slower than even the lamest IDE one...

About 7x faster to read from internal than write to external USB at what 
it's currently doing, but it should be getting 47 MB/s the way it 
started out instead of plodding along at 13...but even at 13 MB/s it's 
enough to transfer a 23-minute video in 15 seconds.  Considering I got 
it to expand my archival space, I am content.

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Tim Cook wrote:
> Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>>
>> IME, USB harddrives are drastically slower than even the lamest IDE 
>> one...
> 
> About 7x faster to read from internal than write to external USB at what 
> it's currently doing, but it should be getting 47 MB/s the way it 
> started out instead of plodding along at 13...but even at 13 MB/s it's 

Actually, 47MB/s outrun even UDMA-channel (33MB/s).

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On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:54:30 +0200, Eero Ahonen  
<aer### [at] removethiszbxtnetinvalid> wrote:
> Actually, 47MB/s outrun even UDMA-channel (33MB/s).

Except that (P)ATA-UDMA goes up to 133 MB/s (though some manufacturers  
stick to ATA/100) and USB drives typically come nowhere near 47 MB/s.


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Tim Cook wrote:

> About 7x faster to read from internal than write to external USB at what 
> it's currently doing, but it should be getting 47 MB/s the way it 
> started out instead of plodding along at 13...

Disk fragmentation?

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