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Date:      Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:15:30 -0400
From:      Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, roberthuff@rcn.com, chris@vindaloo.com
Subject:   Re: Replacing tape changer with USB disk drives.
Message-ID:  <18519.58146.85830.402923@jerusalem.litteratus.org>
In-Reply-To: <200806171540.m5HFe92o057907@lurza.secnetix.de>
References:  <20080617162205.S8299@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <200806171540.m5HFe92o057907@lurza.secnetix.de>

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Oliver Fromme writes:

>   > > >  you must have something wrong. my USB drive gets 27MB/s. yes this
>   > > >  480Mbit/s is USB isn't real, but half of it is.
>   > 
>   > i simply have no idea why it could work so slow.
>  
>  Cheap controller in the USB enclosure.  I've used quite
>  a few USB enclosures in the past years, and there are
>  significant performance differences.  As a rule of thumb,
>  the cheaper the box, the slower it is.  Of course there
>  are exceptions to that rule.

	Would you care to offer experiences and recomendations?


				Robert Huff




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