[SLL] backup to Windows, restore on Linux

[Bill Campbell]

On Sun, Jun 15, 2008, Glenn Stone wrote:
>On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 06:58:54PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote:
>>As others have suggested, you could also use a USB stick, but that's going
>>to be considerably slower than a hard drive, and probably not as useful
>>when you're done.
>
>Disagree here.  It *does* depend on the USB-stick, though.  An el cheapo
>stick is USB 1.1 at best, which is 12 megabits/sec.  Ssssllloooowwww.  But
>most of the new ones are USB2, which is 400 megabits, or somewhat upwards of
>40 mega*bytes* per second.  ATA133 hard drives run at 40 to 45 MB/sec; SATA
>1's (does a quick test) run at 68, which is a little faster but not a huge
>difference on the dataset we're talking about (2 minutes vs. a minute
>fifteen on 5GB - biggish percentage-wise but if you're already waiting one
>minute for a data transfer an extra one is gonna be well-nigh unnoticeable;
>either way when you get back from the coffeepot it's done. :).  Flash also
>has the advantages that they're (a) cheap, (b) small and (c) solid state and
>thus resistant to percussive damage.  I'd throw you a USB stick.  I'd *hand*
>you the hard drive.  

My experience with USB sticks is limited (I seem to keep losing
the things :-).

As for USB 1.1 being slow, when I ran the Migration program on my
867MhZ Powerbook yesterday bringing about 22GB from my old hard
drive to the new one it took about six hours.  On the other hand,
it seems to have brought everything over to the new Leopard
system very nicely.

Bill
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