I'm trying to find the fastest way to back up hundreds of gigs of pics and video from my internal SATA drive to an external drive.
My board is an EVGA E758 X58. Internal drive is WD Caviar Black w/ 7200 RPM, 32 MB Cache. My external drive is also 7200 RPM, with 16 MB cache, and has both USB 2.0 and eSATA connections.
Using USB 2.0 the transfer goes about 10 MB/sec before I cancel it.
Using eSATA the transfer starts at over 100 MB/sec, then over the a few minutes it slows to around 7 MB/sec, then slowly climbs back to just over 40 MB/sec.
I'm guessing that if I hadn't cancelled the USB transfer if it also would have climbed to over 40 MB/sec, but I didn't have the patience to wait around and find out...
I had just purchased the eSATA cable hoping that eSATA would be much faster than USB.
Any ideas on how to make this go much faster? Is 40 MB/sec all I'm going to get, even though SATA II is, in the specs, supposed to be capable of up to 300 MB/sec?
My board is an EVGA E758 X58. Internal drive is WD Caviar Black w/ 7200 RPM, 32 MB Cache. My external drive is also 7200 RPM, with 16 MB cache, and has both USB 2.0 and eSATA connections.
Using USB 2.0 the transfer goes about 10 MB/sec before I cancel it.
Using eSATA the transfer starts at over 100 MB/sec, then over the a few minutes it slows to around 7 MB/sec, then slowly climbs back to just over 40 MB/sec.
I'm guessing that if I hadn't cancelled the USB transfer if it also would have climbed to over 40 MB/sec, but I didn't have the patience to wait around and find out...
I had just purchased the eSATA cable hoping that eSATA would be much faster than USB.
Any ideas on how to make this go much faster? Is 40 MB/sec all I'm going to get, even though SATA II is, in the specs, supposed to be capable of up to 300 MB/sec?