[OT] Re: Typical SATA to SATA rates

[Keith Clark]

On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 11:11 -0400, Ray Leventhal wrote:
> Keith Clark wrote:
> > I am using Simple Backup Suite to backup one SATA drive to an identical
> > SATA drive on the same computer.  I only seem to be able to get speeds
> > of around 29 Mb/s.  Doesn't this seem to be a bit slow?  Is there
> > anything I can change to speed this up?
> > 
> > Keith
> > 
> > 
> > 
> SATA bus transfers are typically in the 3GiB/s rate...so yes, that's a 
> bit slow.  Are both drives on the same bus?
> 
> -R

Well, I decided to open the machine physically and there is only one
SATA drive!  The two I am using are EIDE.  What should typical speeds be
between these two drives now?  There is only one bus on this
motherboard.

Keith