On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 04:18:32PM +0100, Chris G wrote:
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:18:09AM +0100, Srdjan Todorovic wrote:
Hi
On 22/04/2008, Chris G cl@isbd.net wrote:
I've already got the external USB drive working with it, I haven't dared try and re-format it yet though (any answers on that front?).
Any reason you've not dared to reformat?
Not really, I've Googled a bit and it looks as if it should be uneventful. I just haven't got round to it yet.
I'm currently copying the contents of the 500Gb USB drive via my new MSI Titan 700 and a *long* Cat5E cable from the garage to my desktop. I just made the cable myself having bought a 305 metre length of Cat5 and a crimping tool (and some plugs of course).
It's copying big files at almost 20MB/s which I reckon is pretty good, it's getting on for 200Mb/s. While it's nothing like the theoretical maximum on a Gigabit ethernet I've not done anything to optimise it, it's copying off a USB disk and the MSI box is hardly high powered.
When I've copied the contents off the USB drive I'll try formatting it as ext3.