On 7/10/07, Lee Jones <lee@frumble.claremont.edu> wrote:
> >> What sort of data transfer rate would people expect?
>
> > I'd say the 150MBit/s should be somewhat guaranteed with that
> > hardware, so it would make some 15MByet/sec.
>
> SATA I is 1.5 gigabit per second (150 megabyte per second)
> from drive to controller.
>
> SATA II is 3.0 gigabit per second (300 megabyte per second).
>

In practice, you never get close to these numbers on an extended copy.
 The bottleneck is getting the data off the platters.

Drive manufacturers will generally not tell you the sustained data
transfer rate.

Regards,
Mark
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