[MLUG] Hot swap external SATA

[Alex Bedard]

On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:28 AM, The Anarcat <anarcat at anarcat.ath.cx> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 12:24:52AM -0500, Alex Bedard wrote:
> >
> >
> > 2008/12/4 The Anarcat <anarcat at anarcat.ath.cx>
> >
> >     On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 11:01:27PM -0500, Alex Bedard wrote:
> >     > USB 2 = 480mbps
> >     > eSATA = 1.5gbps
> >
> >     Is there a drive out there that can sustain 1.5gbps?
> >
> >
> > Yes, and more, SATA2 is 3gbps.  Keep in mind these are Gb/s, and not
> GB/s.
>
> Really! The most i could get out of a SATA2 drive here is 30-40MB/s
> (roughly 300-400mbps). Which drive are you talking about here?
>
> And i'm not talking about those feeble 8MB caches on drive, i'm talking
> about raw disk access.
>
> --


On what kind of a computer chipset ? I was getting 34MB/s on my P3 laptop
with an IDE 7200rpm HD when configured properly with hdparm.

You should be able to get at least twice that on a SATA 2 drive.
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