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Transfer speeds between 2 hard drives

U_Fig · 2011-06-09 02:51:15

At the moment I'm Transfering roughly 500gb from one drive (7200rpm) Sata to another drive (5400rpm) Sata.. Both connected to my desktop running ububtu 11.04 from a USB flash drive.. Both drives are idle but the speed I'm getting is max 20MB/s. This just seems a little slow considering that I have a USB transfer cable that…

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At the moment I'm Transfering roughly 500gb from one drive (7200rpm) Sata to another drive (5400rpm) Sata.. Both connected to my desktop running ububtu 11.04 from a USB flash drive.. Both drives are idle but the speed I'm getting is max 20MB/s. This just seems a little slow considering that I have a USB transfer cable that I've seen reach almost 30MB/s is there a war if speeding this up? I though using a Sata interface would be quicker than USB

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