[G4] Re: Backup Strategy for G4 to Ext Dive

[Richard Klein]

Richard M. Kriss wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the comments.  The combo (ATA/SATA) USB 2.0 case showed up
> yesterday.  It was really a tight fit but my old SATA drive finally made it
> in the box.  I was shocked at sluggish speed of the USB interface. Really
> slow and almost useless.  I used SD to clone my primary to the external and
> it seemed to work okay.  Not having a firewire interface to be able to test
> the clone is not good.  I could NOT find a combo drive with a  firewire
> interface.  
> 
> End of topic.....  I need to find a firewire SATA enclousure.

That's with a Belkin USB 2.0 card, right?  It sounds like you're only 
getting USB 1.1 speeds (12MB/s versus 480MB/s for USB 2.0).  Something 
ain't right.  Firewire is 400MB/s, so it shouldn't be notably faster 
than USB 2.0.

--
Rich