[CoLoCo] defragmenting in linux?

Jim Hutchinson jim at ubuntu-rocks.org
Fri Nov 16 05:08:40 GMT 2007


On 11/15/07, Chomafin <chomafin at gmail.com> wrote:
> As for your speed question.. I think this sums it well :
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA#eSATA_in_comparison_to_other_external_buses
>
> According to this, The SATA 1.5 and ATA133 drives are nearly the same.. But
> the USB 2.0 is well under it in speed. So I think its the USB Bus that will
> limit any transfers, until usb3.0 comes out that is.

Yes, but an eSATA port would be faster. The theortical limit is
3.0gpbs. Of course no drive works that fast yet but would be faster
than USB.

Jim



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