On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Carlos E. R. <robin.listas@telefonica.net> wrote:
.. btw, I have tried to copy my 500Gb hard disk only during ~ 12 hrs (error in the original e-mail) with the default 512 byte blocksize, i.e. during the night. In the morning it was still copying.. :( Well.. I guess I'll try tonight again with the 65 Mb blocksize and if that is unacceptable (more than one night) I'll be off to by an eSATA thingie for my laptop.
I bought a new desktop, and I was, and am, trhilled by the eSATA ports. I dunno how expensive they will be for a laptop, though, but I think it is worth it if you do large backups. Plus, don't forget SMART.
eSata is great when it is on the MB or PCI bus, etc. Laptops only have the PCMCIA bus (now called Card-Bus I think). That bus is not as fast as eSata, so you won't see real eSata speeds if you get a laptop eSata add-on card. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org