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Thread ID: 110629	2010-06-25 05:22:00	Faster eSATA?	Nomad (952)	Press F1

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1113501	2010-06-26 06:01:00	Looks like your eSata is slow to me . It should be in the same ball park as internal hard drives . Sata1 or 2 shouldn't make much difference . Hard Disks can only exceed sata1 speeds for brief periods . Looking back at a earlier test I did, I copied a 6 . 35GB iso in 115 seconds between 2 internal hard drives . It took 120 seconds using eSata . What sort of hard drive have you got on eSata? If it is one of the lower rpm green drives, it can slow things down .	McRuff (12291)
1113502	2010-06-26 22:24:00	eSATA - Seagate SATA-1 80GB Barruduca. Internals: WD Black Cavier 500GB SATA-2 ---> Seagate Barrucudda 500GB SATA-2.	Nomad (952)
1113503	2010-06-26 23:56:00	Motherboard is it or what bus is the eSata connected to?	SolMiester (139)
1113504	2010-06-27 02:11:00	ASUS P5Q. Before I had RAID 1 set up. # The 2nd drive was pulled out. # I also had another internal drive as a stand alone. # So I was copying internal to internal. # I was also copying internal stand alone to external. I don't really use RAID 1, I prefer a external drive for backup. # I disabled RAID via the bios. # I did my tests again: SATA2 e-SATA = 30 sec. The same 2.7GB file or whatever it was. SATA1 e-SATA = 35 sec.	Nomad (952)
1113505	2010-06-27 02:12:00	An 80GB Barracuda is going to be slower than those 2 internal 500GB drives. I've done some file transfers on my eSATA dock and have gotten constant speeds of over 100MB/s (with a 1TB WD Black edition), I did a steam backup yesterday to a 640GB drive in the same dock, managed to backup 50GB in just under an hour (compressed down to 30GB as well, so the CPU is doing extra work)	Deimos (5715)
1113506	2010-06-27 02:13:00	I just realised that the steam backup wasn't that fast LOL, only around 9MB/s	Deimos (5715)
1113507	2010-06-27 02:36:00	ASUS P5Q . Before I had RAID 1 set up . # The 2nd drive was pulled out . # I also had another internal drive as a stand alone . # So I was copying internal to internal . # I was also copying internal stand alone to external . I don't really use RAID 1, I prefer a external drive for backup . # I disabled RAID via the bios . # I did my tests again: SATA2 e-SATA = 30 sec . The same 2 . 7GB file or whatever it was . SATA1 e-SATA = 35 sec . Try an internal transfer with the 2nd drive on the white sata connector, it uses the same chip as the esata!	SolMiester (139)
1113508	2010-06-27 02:41:00	Try an internal transfer with the 2nd drive on the white sata connector, it uses the same chip as the esata! You mean the 2nd internal drive on the white connector? Copying internal to internal? Both of my 2 drives are on the red connectors. I didn't use cos I thought they were for the EZY set up of RAID thru ASUS.	Nomad (952)
1113509	2010-06-27 03:22:00	I tried the white connected for both of my internal drives. If I connect the 2nd, the D: is not visible when Windows bootsup and I cannot locate my profile folder. If I connect the main drive onto the white connector it cannot boot at all. AFAIK, the white and orange are for "ASUS Drive Xpert". EZ Backup or Super Speed. ASUS's easier version of RAID. For now, looks like internal to eSATA = 30sec. Internal to internal ~ 30-32sec. If the external was SATA-1, then 35sec. USB2 = 1min 20. I'm happy with that.	Nomad (952)
1113510	2010-06-28 00:31:00	I tried the white connected for both of my internal drives . If I connect the 2nd, the D: is not visible when Windows bootsup and I cannot locate my profile folder . If I connect the main drive onto the white connector it cannot boot at all . AFAIK, the white and orange are for "ASUS Drive Xpert" . EZ Backup or Super Speed . ASUS's easier version of RAID . For now, looks like internal to eSATA = 30sec . Internal to internal ~ 30-32sec . If the external was SATA-1, then 35sec . USB2 = 1min 20 . I'm happy with that . LOL, no not both!! . . . . You usually connect both to the red which has 5 or 6 sata connections, that is the same chipset, the white connector is a different chipset and has 1 internal and 1 esata . Now I asked you to check the transfer speeds across chipsets as that should be the same as internal to esata and would explain why the transfer speeds are as good as across 2 drives on the same chipset!	SolMiester (139)
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