Re: Interesting speed benchmarks

From: Colin Percival <cperciva_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:06:17 -0800
M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <45B9895B.9020709_at_freebsd.org>
>             Colin Percival <cperciva_at_freebsd.org> writes:
> : M. Warner Losh wrote:
> : > Firewire does around 40MB/s, while USB 2.0 maxes out at about 12MB/s.
> : 
> : I get 25MB/s from my Vantec Nexstar3
> : USB 2.0 enclosure:
> : 
> : http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2006-01-28-vantex-nexstar3.html
> 
> Still, 25MB/s is no 40MB/s...

Sure, but it means that the performance issues aren't simply a global "USB 2.0
is bad".  What does `diskinfo -c` say about your firewire and USB interfaces?

Colin Percival
Received on Fri Jan 26 2007 - 05:06:38 UTC

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