Alan McKay wrote:
>> You can get a cheap USB cable with adapters for IDE or SATA drives.
>> They come in handy for situations like that even though they are slower
>> than native sata.  That way you'd just build the new setup and hook the
>> old drive back up via USB to copy the data you want back.
> 
> Yeah, I'd thought of that but it is about an order of magnitude slower
> according to the speed tests I've done on my external drive that has
> both USB and eSata.
> 
> Of course this is my home system so it does not matter so much.   When
> it comes time to do the one at work it might matter - we'll see :-)
> 

I'd expect hdparm -t to show a bit less than 30MB/s with most drives.  Unless 
you only have USB 1.0 connections.  It's a better match for IDE than SATA but 
still would beat copying twice over a network.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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