OT: Hard Drive Opinions?

NoStop wrote:[color=blue]
>[color=green][color=darkred]
>>> So is it dd that you're running to clone the drive over?[/color]
>> Yup, bs between 2^4 bytes and 2^19 bytes (I think) to see what works
>> best.
>>[color=darkred]
>>> How long does it take each night?[/color]
>> Lessee, the transfer runs about 40 MB/s, so that means it'd take about
>> an hour and a half. It's significantly faster if they're on separate IDE
>> cables, but my cables won't reach that way.[/color][/color]

Why don't you use rsync for this? Seems to me the main drive only has
one day of modifications, so rsync (which copies only the changed files)
will do this pretty quickly.

Sure, you don't have a block-for-block same drive, but that doesn't
really matter if you did a 'dd' the first time you set this system up.

Bob

In article <4906e779$0$200$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>,
Bob <invalid@invalid> wrote:[color=blue]
> NoStop wrote:[color=green]
> >[color=darkred]
> >>> So is it dd that you're running to clone the drive over?
> >> Yup, bs between 2^4 bytes and 2^19 bytes (I think) to see what works
> >> best.
> >>
> >>> How long does it take each night?
> >> Lessee, the transfer runs about 40 MB/s, so that means it'd take about
> >> an hour and a half. It's significantly faster if they're on separate IDE
> >> cables, but my cables won't reach that way.[/color][/color]
>
> Why don't you use rsync for this? Seems to me the main drive only has
> one day of modifications, so rsync (which copies only the changed files)
> will do this pretty quickly.[/color]

Because I'd have to make sure the partition tables are the same and
mount each partition to do that. Time taken isn't really a factor since
it completes while I sleep (unless something goes wrong).

If I get a big/slow enough HD that I can't dd it overnight, then sure,
I'll look into rsync.

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