Re: [gentoo-user] recommendation sought for external disk

[gottlieb@nyu.edu]

On Thu, Jan 02 2014, Helmut Jarausch wrote:

> On 01/01/2014 11:07:22 PM, gottlieb@nyu.edu wrote:
>> My home desktop has had a seagate external 750GB drive ST3750640cbrk  
>> for
>> a number of years and the disk is starting to fail.  The system gets
>> only modest usage.  It is powered on about 1/2 the time and the disk
>> often goes significant periods without activity so it spins down.
>> 
>> I was considering what seagate calls an "expansion hard drive".  They
>> are USB 3, but I will be using only USB 2.
>
> If you have a free expansion slot I'd install a (very cheap) USB 3  
> adapter.
> There is a tremendous difference in speed compared to USB 2.
>
> Data transfer to my (quite recent) external USB 3 drives is about 130  
> MB/s
> (measured by iotop) which is faster than for my built in SATA 3 drives.
>
> Helmut

Thanks for the advice (and numbers).  I do have a slot and may follow
your suggestion.  My only reluctance is that the disk gets such light
usage that I don't notice its slowdown compared to my internal faster
disk.  So I have pause if opening the case is justified.

But again, thanks for your helpful msg.
allan