eSATA versus USB

I’ve finally bought an eSATA external drive, a 1GB LaCie. Has it supports eSATA + Firewire + USB, I’ve decided to do a little home benchmarking. Here are the results:

 

USB

 

eSATA

 

Uau!… Bye-bye USB, here’s my new VM disk :)

 

And here are my internal disk results:

 

 

Strangely enough, these are worse than eSATA.

 

Update: I’m copying my VMs to my new eSATA external drive at 57MB/s. Cool.

 

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Here’s a benchmark for another drive and external case (with eSATA):

This is a 2.5 disk. And the benchmark results are not so bright…

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And here’s yet another cool setting from another development server we have:

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