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| Author: | oceanicitl [ Wed Jun 01, 2011 10:17 am ] |
| Post subject: | Guess the time.... |
How long will it take to restore 185gb data from a USB drive to a Macbook Pro? Kicked it off using a command in terminal at 10.19am. No prize for the winner apart from the pleasure of getting it right. |
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Wed Jun 01, 2011 10:18 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Guess the time.... |
14:02 |
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| Author: | HeatherKay [ Wed Jun 01, 2011 10:20 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Guess the time.... |
Via USB? On a Mac? Let's see... 17:37, 23/8/2012. |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Wed Jun 01, 2011 10:20 am ] | |||||||||
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I did a similar size transfer over the weekend and it took between 3 and 4 hours, so I'll say 13:50. Jon |
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| Author: | oceanicitl [ Wed Jun 01, 2011 10:26 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Guess the time.... |
It will be less than 3 hours that's all I'm saying 
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| Author: | l3v1ck [ Wed Jun 01, 2011 10:29 am ] | |||||||||
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Oi. No clues 
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| Author: | oceanicitl [ Wed Jun 01, 2011 12:15 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Guess the time.... |
1 HOUR 44 MINS |
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| Author: | Spreadie [ Wed Jun 01, 2011 12:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Guess the time.... |
30MB per second over USB? 
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| Author: | big_D [ Wed Jun 01, 2011 12:46 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Guess the time.... |
My old Toshiba usb drive peaked out at 43MB/s, and that was on an old Athlon machine - the first Intel iMacs were deliberately crippled, to run at about 1/3 their normal speed. |
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| Author: | leeds_manc [ Wed Jun 01, 2011 1:04 pm ] | |||||||||
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Why? |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Wed Jun 01, 2011 1:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Guess the time.... |
Conspiracy theory. The performance was rubbish, and of course that was to try to convince people to use firewire instead so Apple could make all that licensing money, not just because they didn't do it very well. Jon |
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| Author: | HeatherKay [ Wed Jun 01, 2011 1:13 pm ] | |||||||||
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^^ This. It's why I'm prejudiced against using USB for mass storage devices beyond thumb drives. Firewire beats the undercrackers off USB file transfers on every Mac I've had. (This appears to have changed with the kit Apple have been selling in the past couple of years, though not by much if Caz's experience is to be believed.) |
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| Author: | jonbwfc [ Wed Jun 01, 2011 3:34 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Guess the time.... |
There are of course many issues which define the speed you get data off a drive, of which the notional or indeed actual speed of the interface is only one... Jon |
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| Author: | tombolt [ Wed Jun 01, 2011 4:12 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Guess the time.... |
Doesn't FireWire have a dedicated chip and USB shares the CPU? Thought I read that somewhere as to the reason for the performance difference. |
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| Author: | oceanicitl [ Wed Jun 01, 2011 4:22 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Guess the time.... |
I find the speed to the USB fobs is a lot worse. I didn't have a big enough firewire device at work but was in no rush anyway. Just meant my work mac was out of action longer
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