Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:37:31 -0400 From: Gerard <gerard@seibercom.net> To: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 1 TB data copy Message-ID: <20071012103349.A3CB.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <3236.67.100.188.210.1192191787.squirrel@www.geekisp.com> References: <3236.67.100.188.210.1192191787.squirrel@www.geekisp.com>
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On October 12, 2007 at 08:23AM Monah Baki wrote: > We have a windows 2003 server and 1 freebsd 6.2 server. The 2003 server > supports USB 1 while the freebsd supports usb 2. > We went and purchased an external 1 TB usb 2 harddrive. > Our objective is to copy 700GB worth of data from the windows to the freebsd > server then take the external harddive to a remote client who runs windows > 2003 and then copy the data back to the windows server. > The throughput of copying the data from windows to the usb attached to it > was ridiculous, more than 12 hours to copy 60GB of data. > I tried copying a 1GB file from windows to the usb attached to the freebsd > and it took less than 5 minutes, but ofcourse when I tried to mount the > usb back to the windows box I could not see the 1GB file that I copied. > How can use the freebsd as the destination copy since it has a much better > throughput and at the same time have the windows box see the 600GB file > that was copied once I attach the usb harddrive to it. Wouldn't it be advantageous to upgrade the Windows machine to USB2 level? -- Gerard
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