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    External Harddrives and Copying/Transfer

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Falcon69, Aug 26, 2010.

  1. Falcon69

    Falcon69 Notebook Geek

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    Okay, so, I have these External Harddrives. 1.5tb 5900 RPM.

    And I have this 5-bay Raid tower with on-board raid hardware. 2tb 7200 rpm drives, 5 of them in Raid 5. All connected via eSATA cable and through an Express 2-port eSATA card. capable of 3gb/s.

    Now copying files from the smaller external drives to the raid tower, I'm only getting 3.5mb/s to 7mb/s transfer rates.

    is wrong?

    The PC they are being routed through is a Sager 8850, i7-940xm,8gb 1333MHz ram, GTX480m, Seagate SSD Hybrid Drives x2 in RAID 0.

    Why am I only getting about 7mb/s transfer rate? This is going to take 3 days per 1.5tb drive to copy.

    ARGHHHHH!
     
    Falcon69, Aug 26, 2010
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    oh, also, the stripe on the raid drives is 64kb. not sure if that makes a difference. i read 64kb is about the best setting.
     
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