Malcolm Herbert wrote: > I'm wondering about the usual speed of the net5501 USB port, as I seem > to get no better than about 700KB/s to an attached external disk.
That sounds really close to what you'd expect from usb1, about 5.6Mb/s... I'll connect one up to my soekris and see what I get. > I haven't yet worked out where the bottleneck is, but a 250GB RAID > mirror is expected to take 4 days to sync, which seems to be a little > too long to me ... it also seems to pound the CPU pretty hard when > I do any sustained USB traffic ... So there's two disks in an external enclosure and one is being copied to the other? > Has anyone else seen this transfer rate from their net5501? Is it > just a case of a crappy USB "2" disk caddy? > > If the USB port isn't really useable for external disks, what options > would I have to get some sort of mounting bracket for a second disk > inside the box - presumably a SATA 2.5in disk of the same type? > Regards, > Malcolm > _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
