Core Data Recovery

Archive for March, 2009

I’m running a real world test using linux to give you guys some numbers.

I’m doing a sector for sector copy of a 1 Terabyte SATA II western digital drive to another 1 Terabyte SATA II Western digital thru usb.

I’ll post the results on my blog.

For the record I’m using a quad core Intel chip, Biostar board, Thermaltake USB docks (2 of them)

Right now it looks like drive to drive copy using:
ddrescue -n /dev/sdb /dev/sdc

it looks like it’s going to take about 16 hours of transfer time (estimated at this point) to copy between the drives.

I’m going to try 2 different platforms and drives and give you guys some real world numbers here.

I use SATA II External Thermaltake drives for data transfer of striped array members for their ease of use and hook them up with ESATA as a rule.

It will be interesting to see the performance difference for the copy, of course copying from drive to drive amplifies difference in speed.

(My blog is at http://www.coredatarecovery.com)