transfer speeds ok?

movingtables · 22 May 2012 at 10:02

When i back up a movie file from my internal caviar black 1TB hard drive
to my USB2 external 1TB Seagate (usb powered 5200rpm) the transfer speed
for a typical 1gig file is 27/mb

seems slow, or is it ?

Yaayuh! · 22 May 2012 at 10:19

Transferring over USB2.0 to a 5200rpm drive, seems about right to me.

Surveyor · 22 May 2012 at 10:53

The limiting factor is the USB 2.0 interface.

27MB/s is realistically all you're going to get.

movingtables · 22 May 2012 at 11:02

ok cheers guys.

badboy · 23 May 2012 at 07:23

So would a seagate 1tb 64mb cache hdd be quicker than an ssd ?

Yaayuh! · 23 May 2012 at 08:48

badboy said:
So would a seagate 1tb 64mb cache hdd be quicker than an ssd ?

The USB2.0 interface will be a bottleneck, it would be pointless choose either. Just get a the cheapest / reliable drive.