Noob Centos Admin schrieb: > > > The first day's transfer just completed and it took about 1hr 10 > minutes for 101GB, from du -h, which I think is in terms of 1024. So > that's like 24.6MB/s which admittedly appears to be around the maximum > real world data transfer rate for USB 2.0. According to some reviews > of this WD model, the Firewire was supposedly up to 1/3 faster (they > had figures of 35MBps vs 44Mbps). > > So I am hoping to see a similar speed from the Firewire here to save > some 20 minutes of waiting time, a whole week's backup would be almost > 2.5 hours of savings! > > Going to reboot the system now with the new kernel and hopes I don't > lose the NIC or something :D The problem with Firewire is that you need a) a "good" chip in the controller b) a "good" chip in the Firewire-to-SATA controller in the external unit (there are no native firewire disks...) That's what makes IEEE1394 always a bit of a gamble. There's a reason someone came up with this eSATA stuff... Rainer