Limits to Growth

Well, in preparation for the big move, I bought 4 250GB drives, two of these external firewire dual cases, did the EnableDynamicConversionFor1394 trick, and rigged up a ~1TB hard drive near-line backup.

The sad thing is that I notice that though hard drive capacities have increased tremendously, this has not been tracked by a similar increase in read/write speeds. And of course, the old PCI/Firewire connection limits the throughput.

But anyway, it took just under 4 days to do a complete backup of around 720GB of data, and another 36 hours to do a byte-for-byte verify. That’s just too damn slow!