<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Mar 6, 2008, at 9:15 PM, Chris Ribe wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 9:50 PM, Brian Wood <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="Ih2E3d"><br> ><br> > Well, they're claiming about 60 MB/s which is close to what you get<br> > from non-RAID internal drives.<br> <br> </div>If true that's not bad.<br> <div class="Ih2E3d">><br></div></blockquote><div><br>It isn't true. 60MB/s is 480 Mbps which is the USB2 signaling rate. Actual USB transfer speeds top out in the low 20MB/s range, even if you have a external RAID 0 of 15k SCSI drives.<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>That jibes more with my experience, both with hard drive performance and with marketing claims by manufacturers.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>beww</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></body></html>