[UniMacTech] New MacBooks and Firewire

[Kris Kopicki]

Hi Alex,

No, that was with the previous model Macbook, as our delivery hasn't  
arrived yet. The same results were observed on a recent Mac Pro.

Cheers,

Kris

On 12/11/2008, at 3:55 PM, Alex Dawson wrote:

> Is this with the new Macbooks? I have heard there are some speed  
> improvements for USB2 implementation on there..
>
> On 12/11/2008, at 9:05 AM, Kris Kopicki wrote:
>>>
>> As someone has already mentioned, you can still do this with USB  
>> drive enclosures, however depending on the size of the SOE you are  
>> restoring, it may add significantly to your time. We did some  
>> testing with one of the new 500GB LaCie Rugged cases, just to see  
>> how bad USB2 really is:
>>
>> FW800: 52MB/sec
>> FW400: 32MB/sec
>> USB2: 24MB/sec
>>
>> So as you can see you take quite a speed hit for USB2, which you'll  
>> really notice if you are restoring 15GB dmg's like we do. The  
>> better way to be doing this is with Netboot/NetRestore. You can't  
>> beat the performance of Gigabit ethernet. We can restore a 15GB SOE  
>> to an iMac in 14 minutes (with verification). Of course if you're  
>> machines don't have access to ethernet, then USB is your only option.
>
> -- 
> Alex Dawson
> IT Manager (Acting) FAHSS Faculty Computing,
> 08 6488 7093 - alex.dawson at uwa.edu.au - http://uwa.edu.au/people/alex.dawson
> University of Western Australia (CRICOS 00126G)
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