[mythtv-users] 1TB USB $225 US

[Matt Mossholder]

On Mon, 2008-02-11 at 09:28 -0700, Brian Wood wrote:
> Now that I think about it some folks reporting success with NFS may be 
> using gigabit ethernet which, especially with fast processors and drive 
> systems, could well approach the speed of USB. The claimed performance 
> of USB2 is certainly optimistic at best, and Linux probably does not 
> have the most efficient implementation of USB, while Linux was "born to 
> network".
> 
> beww

It is a bit better than "approaching"....


Consider the following:
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mattcm at mourneblade:~$ ls -sk /myth/jenn-20080210.tar.gz 
832984 /myth/jenn-20080210.tar.gz
mattcm at mourneblade:~$ time cp /myth/jenn-20080210.tar.gz  /dev/null

real    0m13.368s
user    0m0.020s
sys     0m1.632s

mattcm at mourneblade:~$ bc
bc 1.06
Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'. 
832984 * 8  (Convert from Kbytes to Kbits)
6663872
6663872/1000 (scale to Mbits ... networks speeds are in decimal)
6663
6663/13.368 (Divide by time...)
498  (498 Mbit/sec)

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There was an SD recording from the local frontend going on while this
transfer was occurring, as well.


		--Matt