Somewhat OT, but possibly useful to all Fedorites

[lee]

JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> writes:

> I have a 2.5" drive, 7200RPM and eSATA 3 (6gbps) drive.
>
> If I put it in an enclosure that is eSATA 2 (3gbps),
> how much impact does it have on the drive's performance
> using the various i/o throughput benchmarking apps,
> compared with if the enclosure supported 6gbps?
>
> (assume that that controller in the computer is indeed
> a 6gps esata3 controller).

http://blog.scoutapp.com/articles/2011/02/10/understanding-disk-i-o-when-should-you-be-worried

You probably need to do some testing yourself.  Please let us know the
results.


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