From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RKNaO-0000CJ-0R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 05:05:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D223E21C03A; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 05:05:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2D9921C042 for ; Sun, 30 Oct 2011 05:04:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwg7 with SMTP id 7so459516wwg.10 for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 22:04:14 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=kaLoD+QCPwe83jMlaNO98OnphMJV6cqrslaJ0XnrDBQ=; b=vbGzjf1gqz1dRvF4bOQY6gGeIzO43yFsWwYp75hy0uY0L0qAVWP5XE/8DJ+s4egmhI dmsidAxOvxFXXenY1h+8UC4BfTinJumjSFkb0cOAHomr81HxSSvOUFGY5XDNbFYLIYQ0 6M2qXFxLeZ5YUcSJMx4T5XyTiJEWZhWueywI8= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.216.14.22 with SMTP id c22mr1435710wec.80.1319951053976; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 22:04:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.180.102.134 with HTTP; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 22:04:13 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4EA9130A.6070807@gmail.com> <1916730.lWDedWx0D1@localhost> Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 14:04:13 +0900 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Hard drive RPMs and data speed. From: daid kahl To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 05614174cf3313e456ed7b612c5ea9da Lots of HDD RPMs and company suggestions, but to the point... My two cents are: ESATA. I have multi TB external disks which I have physics data stored on and needs to be analyzed. USB might be as fast (in the best case), but it uses processor overhead. Not that a lot of machines support that kind of input. I picked up a decent laptop for cheap that also supports ESATA. I didn't do benchmarks or anything, but it's really insane IMO. ~daid PS Sorry I deleted all the reply text. I didn't want to copy/paste individual references to different company external drives and so on, just to not really care. Mine is something by Buffalo, but I care because it has ESATA. PPS Or you could be my friends using USB formated NTFS and I can use top to see how much processor power is used by ntfs-3g just to read the data. Ugh!