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BuffaloX
October 29th, 2009, 06:06 PM
Hi I'm making ready for Karmic, and backing up my data on an external USB harddrive.

My backup speed is 28.2 MB/sec,

Is this normal? How fast is your backup speed?

cariboo
October 29th, 2009, 07:25 PM
That's the speed I get from my external usb drives.

cascade9
October 29th, 2009, 07:31 PM
Thats pretty normal for a USB 2.0 external. I dont think I've ever seen one go over 35MB/sec ;)

speedwell68
October 29th, 2009, 07:58 PM
Thats pretty normal for a USB 2.0 external. I dont think I've ever seen one go over 35MB/sec ;)

I was going to say that. I think when I last did a full backup I was getting around 30MB/sec.

CharlesA
October 29th, 2009, 08:02 PM
Same speed mine goes at.

BuffaloX
October 30th, 2009, 01:19 AM
Thanks guys, it just felt a bit slow, but I suppose that's how it is when what you really want is to be installing the all new amazing Ubuntu. ;)

Excedio
October 30th, 2009, 01:21 AM
Thanks guys, it just felt a bit slow, but I suppose that's how it is when what you really want is to be installing the all new amazing Ubuntu. ;)

That's why I backed up everything yesterday before the release. :-D

BuffaloX
October 30th, 2009, 01:29 AM
Yeah I knew I should have done that too, now I'm gonna have to wait till tomorrow to install Karmic.

Ain't I the stupid one. #-o

Excedio
October 30th, 2009, 01:32 AM
Ain't I the stupid one. #-o

Not stupid...just not me ;)

Kidding. :-)

The Real Dave
October 30th, 2009, 05:36 PM
Ya thats right for a USB, faster than most of my flash drives, bar my Cruzer Micros :)

My backups to my servers, go at 7Mbytes/s. One of these days, I must invest in Gigabit hardware :)