From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 12 14:37:14 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4519316A46B for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:37:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.225]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0036D13C4A5 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:37:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerard@seibercom.net) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 70so508980wra for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:37:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.90.90.3 with SMTP id n3mr4896352agb.1192199832995; Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:37:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.102? ( [67.189.206.211]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b19sm966914ana.2007.10.12.07.37.12 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 12 Oct 2007 07:37:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:37:31 -0400 To: User Questions Organization: Seibercom.net In-Reply-To: <3236.67.100.188.210.1192191787.squirrel@www.geekisp.com> References: <3236.67.100.188.210.1192191787.squirrel@www.geekisp.com> X-Face: "\j?x](l|]4p?-1Bf@!wN<&p=$.}^k-HgL}cJKbQZ3r#Ar]\%U(#6}'?<3s7%(%(gxJxxcR nSNPNr*/^~StawWU9KDJ-CT0k$f#@t2^K&BS_f|?ZV/.7Q Message-Id: <20071012103349.A3CB.GERARD-SEIBERT@seibercom.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.30.04 [en] From: Gerard Subject: Re: 1 TB data copy X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: User Questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:37:14 -0000 On October 12, 2007 at 08:23AM Monah Baki wrote: > We have a windows 2003 server and 1 freebsd 6.2 server. The 2003 server > supports USB 1 while the freebsd supports usb 2. > We went and purchased an external 1 TB usb 2 harddrive. > Our objective is to copy 700GB worth of data from the windows to the freebsd > server then take the external harddive to a remote client who runs windows > 2003 and then copy the data back to the windows server. > The throughput of copying the data from windows to the usb attached to it > was ridiculous, more than 12 hours to copy 60GB of data. > I tried copying a 1GB file from windows to the usb attached to the freebsd > and it took less than 5 minutes, but ofcourse when I tried to mount the > usb back to the windows box I could not see the 1GB file that I copied. > How can use the freebsd as the destination copy since it has a much better > throughput and at the same time have the windows box see the 600GB file > that was copied once I attach the usb harddrive to it. Wouldn't it be advantageous to upgrade the Windows machine to USB2 level? -- Gerard