Harold Hallikainen hallikainen.org> writes: > How many times can you write to a specific byte? How fast can you write? The device has a datasheet on the webpage. They say write is 15 MB/sec and reead 20 MB/sec. This is 'quad USB 2.0' technology (they say so). If it's true (they could be Mega Bits) it's faster than a current laptop drive by a factor of 2 or 3. Also combining several drives using an 8-er USB hub to make a RAID is really easy and hot pluggable. Under *nux with RAID on LVM slices adding units simply adds capacity without requiring any system configuration manipulations. And with that speed (and assuming a good USB infrastructure) a striped RAID can probably exceed 100 MB/sec write speed without even trying hard. Even at 15 MB/sec an image copy at 64GB takes about an hour. That is faster than the required time for a hdd of the same size. Peter P. -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist