Gigabank question
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From: Uncle Vinnie on 10 May 2006 16:50 Curious- how do these i/o magic 4.0 giga-bank drives compare to a regular HD or DVD in terms of speed... I was thinking of backing up My docs from my pc, to use when I travel with my laptop.. I think my laptop (HP n5445) has the older USB port, so it may not access data as fast, but would it access data faster than if I backed up on a CD, DVD, or even it's maxed out HD? Thanks! -- B'rgds, Vinnie
From: paulmd@efn.org on 10 May 2006 17:44 Uncle Vinnie wrote: > Curious- how do these i/o magic 4.0 giga-bank drives compare to a regular HD > or DVD in terms of speed... For archival purposes you want a media and drive that'll be available and supported 10 years from now. Cuz if your reader fails the last place thing you want to do is to hunt up ebay for another one so you can restore from your media. DVD's will be here that long, and so will USB/firewire hard drives.
From: Uncle Vinnie on 11 May 2006 07:15 Good point, thank you.... But how do these compare in terms of speed... for instance, if I am working with someone and I want to access jpegs or Excel/Word docs - are the Gigabanks faster than CD's or DVD's? -- B'rgds, Vinnie <paulmd(a)efn.org> wrote in message news:1147297493.517468.80510(a)j33g2000cwa.googlegroups.com... > > Uncle Vinnie wrote: >> Curious- how do these i/o magic 4.0 giga-bank drives compare to a regular >> HD >> or DVD in terms of speed... > > For archival purposes you want a media and drive that'll be available > and supported 10 years from now. Cuz if your reader fails the last > place thing you want to do is to hunt up ebay for another one so you > can restore from your media. > > DVD's will be here that long, and so will USB/firewire hard drives. >
From: paulmd@efn.org on 11 May 2006 12:27 Uncle Vinnie wrote: > Good point, thank you.... > > But how do these compare in terms of speed... for instance, if I am working > with someone and I want to access jpegs or Excel/Word docs - are the > Gigabanks faster than CD's or DVD's? Gigabanks: 3-6MB/s (average 4.5) http://www.iomagic.com/Gigabank/index.asp CDs are a bit tricky. Since they have that multiplier thing going on. 1X=~160KB/s DVD 1X=~1.3MB/s So about the same as a 4X DVD or 36X CD http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-R
From: Uncle Vinnie on 11 May 2006 14:53
Thank you for all your help! I originally went to Iomagic's website and did see the speeds... but your comparison below and some of the additional links, did a much better job of clearing things for me... makes more sense...also, sometimes thinks look great on paper, but in a real application, well, sometimes those same things just look better on paper! Thank you again! -- B'rgds, Vinnie <paulmd(a)efn.org> wrote in message news:1147364863.954702.64240(a)y43g2000cwc.googlegroups.com... > > Uncle Vinnie wrote: >> Good point, thank you.... >> >> But how do these compare in terms of speed... for instance, if I am >> working >> with someone and I want to access jpegs or Excel/Word docs - are the >> Gigabanks faster than CD's or DVD's? > > Gigabanks: 3-6MB/s (average 4.5) > > http://www.iomagic.com/Gigabank/index.asp > > CDs are a bit tricky. Since they have that multiplier thing going on. > > 1X=~160KB/s > > DVD > > 1X=~1.3MB/s > > So about the same as a 4X DVD or 36X CD > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-R > |