[geeks] Intel Mac Mini - Horrible USB2 drive  performance

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: geeks at litfire.com
>Date: 2007/05/24 Thu PM 02:21:24 CDT
>To: 'The Geeks List' <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Intel Mac Mini - Horrible USB2 drive  performance

>>From Lionel Peterson:
>> Whoa - I have to ask, and I'm not trying to insult, but are you measuring
>> end-to-end performance (USB HD -> Mac Mini -> WiFi -> End node)? I'd
>> question USB interface speed, HD speed, and WiFi connection - your
>> transfers will only be as fast as your slowest link...
>> 
>> How are you measuring performance level? I assume OS/X is at latest rev
>> (10.4.9) - correct?
>
>I'm using Xbench 1.3 to quantify what I'm seeing interactively with file
>copies.  No, I'm not doing end-to-end... but if I can't get it off the
>drive, I can't get it across the rest of the path.
>
>OS X 10.4.9, factory install.

Very good - had to ask to get the datapoints for the discussion...

What is the speed of your Mac Mini? I could set mine up and try some tests (mine is a 1.25 G4, IIRC) to see if there is a common problem or one specific to your machine...

Lionel