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So what should you be able to get out of a Time Capsule? Apple Insider has a good comparison of theoretical vs. actual, so here’s a table. This is a good way to see if your Time Capsule is actually performing correctly in MB/sec Theoretical Real World SATA 1.5Gbps 150 [...]

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I got this Rosewill eSATA so I could plug fast drives into my MacBook Pro. Well, like lots of third party stuff it doesn’t really work. It is faster though, but you can only plug one drive in. At least for me. There are lots of issues with the driver apparently as Silicon Image is [...]

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So an interesting test with XBench on disk speed. Since I’m using an older MacBook circa early 2007 for video processing, its interesting to compare the drives all of these are with 4KB blocks

Score Sequential Write Sequential Read Random Write Random Read Internal 5400rpm Fujitsu MHW2160BHPL 35.95 [...]

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