Re: [tlug] USB3 hard disks

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

On Sunday, 1 June 2014, Darren Cook <darren@example.com> wrote:

Quick question: I've two USB3 sockets. If I plug two hard disks in, and
want to copy the entire contents of one drive to the other drive,
roughly how long will it take?

According to Wikipedia, [1] the transfer speed of USB 3.0 is 5 Gbps (gigabits), so if the source drive can read at 2.5 Gbps and the target drive can write at 2.5 Gbps, you can expect a minimum time of 54.61 minutes.

So check the read and write speeds of your drives and re-run my calculation as necessary.

See also Travis's hints below.

Cheers,

Josh

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_3.0

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