[mythtv-users] which harddisk for storing media ?

[Brian Wood]

On Mar 6, 2008, at 9:15 PM, Chris Ribe wrote:

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> On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
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> > Well, they're claiming about 60 MB/s which is close to what you get
> > from non-RAID internal drives.
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> If true that's not bad.
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> It isn't true.   60MB/s is 480 Mbps which is the USB2 signaling  
> rate.  Actual USB transfer speeds top out in the low 20MB/s range,  
> even if you have a external RAID 0 of 15k SCSI drives.

That jibes more with  my experience, both with hard drive performance  
and with marketing claims by manufacturers.

beww

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