Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:04:22 -0500 From: Forrest Aldrich <forrie@forrie.com> To: freebsd-usb@freebsd.org Subject: Using USB2.0 hard drives (performance) on FreeBSD 5.3 Message-ID: <41941A26.7050908@forrie.com>
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I need extra disk space on one of my machines (in short order). So I decided to experiment with attaching a USB2.0 hard drive (Maxtor OneTouch) to the system (SIIG PCI controller). I use a OneTouch on my Windows/XP sytem and it works really well. I wanted to explore placing my mailstore on an external USB2.0 drive - would be easy to port the data to another system if I needed. However, in experimenting with replicating some data (via rsync), I'm wondering if this is a bad idea. While rsyncing data over the wire to the USB2.0 drive (mirroring some data, basically), the shell response to something like "ls" would hang (eventually completed, but much later). I wonder if someone can advise about the use of this drive for that purpose (mailstore) and if there may be some tunables I would need to tweak to get better performance. Thanks.
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