Tip: Speedy Hard Drive Transfer

Have you ever watched how long it takes to copy 100gb of email onto an external hard drive? I have and it is dreadfully slow even onto a 7,200RPM usb2.0 drive. Luckily there is a new type of connection hardware; eSATA. The advantages of eSATA over USB2.0 are clear, especially for people in the lit support industry who are constantly transferring huge amounts of data from hard drive to hard drive. An eSATA external hard drive can reach transfer speeds up to 3Gbits/second(~375megabytes/sec). That’s right, 375 MEGABYTES PER-SECOND! At that speed copying 1 gigabyte will take ~3seconds to complete. USB2.0, depending on your drive speed and various other interferences reaches speeds up to 480Mbits/second(~60megabytes/sec).

Your next hard drive purchase should be an eSATA one. Things you will need: 1. eSATA card and cable 2. eSATA external hard drive. The transfer speed increase will be significant enough to save you tons of time copying data. While you are at it, use a dos copy application like XXCOPY or Robocopy to handle the copying and stay away from MS drag and drop maneuvers as that will only slow things down.

Posted by Logik Systems