how fast is yours ???

[wolverinex]

ok so i finally got my esata connection on an pci add on card, so to test it out i transferred 2 files to my ext hdd (also esata with the serial ata cable)
the 1st file 3.5gigs took 3.5 minutes ...i was expecting maybe a minute or so ?!? 2nd file about 4 gigs also took 4 minutes ... i thought it would be faster somehow ?!? the box says up to 3gigs per second ?

is there something im doing wrong ?

 

[wolverinex]

oh yeah the add on card is plug and play, the installation wizard took about a minute to load and i just checked "yes" for everything ...i also installed the drivers from the cd it came with just incase ...

 

[Keeper]

lol@ 3Gigs per second..... probably "Up to 3 GigaBITS p/s, in theory, on a Heavily modified system overclocked to the limits"

Edit:

I calculated it and you're getting 16MB/s - that is damn slow.... I have copied 50+MB/s through a lan cable, on a regular Sata HDD.

 

[wolverinex]

edit : card details

PCI card that has the VIA chipset, 1 e-Sata, 1 SATA and 1 IDE. Isonic brand

 

[Chevron]

The pci slot is most likely the cause for the slow down.

 

[wolverinex]

The pci slot is most likely the cause for the slow down.

care to explain ?

ok i'll try moving it to the other slot tonight and check that as well

thanks for all the info so far

 

[Conradl]

The pci slot is most likely the cause for the slow down.

Doubt it, PCI is around 133MB/s (33Mhz X 32 bits / 8bits).... The 3gigs/second is the maximum throughput of the SATA bus, its not the speed that you will actually be able to read data from, or write data to to the disk.