[OT] Re: Typical SATA to SATA rates

[Ray Leventhal]

Keith Clark wrote:
> I am using Simple Backup Suite to backup one SATA drive to an identical
> SATA drive on the same computer.  I only seem to be able to get speeds
> of around 29 Mb/s.  Doesn't this seem to be a bit slow?  Is there
> anything I can change to speed this up?
> 
> Keith
> 
> 
> 
SATA bus transfers are typically in the 3GiB/s rate...so yes, that's a 
bit slow.  Are both drives on the same bus?

-R

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