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On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 03:23:26 -0000, "Mad Ad"
<~~@...madmail(at)ntlworld(dot)com...@~~> wrote:
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>"Jaimie Vandenbergh" <jaimie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>news:cq8og5pi8gtjh71d12ro7l46ddl4r7iaeo@xxxxxxxxxx
>> On Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:57:23 +0000, dave <dave@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>>I'd like to put a large amount of data onto a SATA drive, from a PC
>>>which only has pata. I have a power adaptor so can get the SATA drive
>>>to spin up ok - but what would be the best way to copy the data to it?
>>>I thought maybe to get a usb->SATA adaptor and see the drive that way.
>>>Is such a link a sensible way to do this? Data is about 500Gb's
>>>worth. Perhaps there a better way?
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>> If the SATA drive is then going to be removed to take the data
>> elsewhere, I'd say go with the USB idea.
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>> I use one of these, which does SATA, ATA and 2.5" ATA -
>> http://www.amazon.co.uk/SATA-Adapter-Power-5-25-Drive/dp/B001A5SK56
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>> It's a great addition to the toolbox.
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>That looks handy. Would save me swapping in and out my old raid members that
>im using as backup drives. Is it very slow or can around 40MBs be reasonably
>expected?
It's USB, you'll never get what you expect!
Real throughput probably depends on exactly which model you get, but a
quick test here with a 1Tb SATA drive that usually goes around
100meg/second shows 28meg/second write, 31meg/second read at peak.
Cheers - Jaimie
--
Okay, it works now. Or at least it malfunctions in all the expected ways.
-- Mark Edwards, asr
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