Robert wrote:
Peter Farrow wrote:
Dear All,
I tried a USB2 Maxtor One touch II external hard disk on a couple of my Centos 4.2 boxes and found it initiallised the SCSI subsystem ok and added device "sda". But the performance is miserable, yet the same hardware running XP the performance is satisfactory.
HDPARM gives results varying from 120k/sec to , at its peak 4.75M/s on a USB 2 machine, still very poor by any stretch.
On a twin CPU USB 1 machine it give a steady 1M/sec, which is consistently slow, which is better than erratically slow ( :-) )
Still dog slow, wondered if anyone has seen this, and wondered if the firewire interface would be better? (I need to get a cable to try this).
I back up weekly to a Maxtor OneTouch (original) USB2-connected hard drive. This happens while I sleep but it looks like last Wednesday morning, it took 36 minutes to to copy 19GB.
[root@mavis ~]# du -hs /media/OTOT/2005-11-30 19G /media/OTOT/2005-11-30 [root@mavis ~]#
[rj@mavis ~]$ cat backup_progress_2005-11-30 Wed Nov 30 02:02:07 CST 2005 Removing /media/OTOT/2005-11-09 Backup to /media/OTOT/2005-11-30 Started at Wed Nov 30 02:06:13 CST 2005 Wed Nov 30 02:06:14 CST 2005 Completed: /bin Wed Nov 30 02:06:15 CST 2005 Completed: /boot
<snip> Wed Nov 30 02:42:14 CST 2005 Completed: /var Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb2 152206916 132579164 11896072 92% /media/OTOT /dev/sdb2 successfully unmounted from /media/OTOT All Finished at Wed Nov 30 02:42:14 CST 2005
Looks like that averages out to about 8.8MB/sec I'm running an Athlon 2600+, 2GHz, 512MB on an ASUS A7N8X. I hope this helps.
No, not at all. What's the setup? How is the USB configured? How's the drive configured, formatted ext3, vfat...