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Op 20-5-2011 0:38, jondl_2000 schreef:

> That's an interesting solution. Has the performance improved?

I should think so. There's no comparison between the performance of an 
internal drive (probably SATA) and an external one (probably USB).

Many people are under the mistaken impression that USB manages 480 
Mbit/s. That is its PEAK performance; sustained performance is much 
lower than that.

> Many people prefer to record to an external drive rather than their boot drive. Have you ever defragmented the external drive? If the performance has improved I'm wondering if the reorg that occurred when you moved the files from one hard drive to the other has provided you a temporary solution.

But it's a different partition than his boot partition, so fragmentation 
of the boot partition is not an issue when it comes to recording.

The best would be, obviously, to have a separate (internal) drive on a 
separate controller.

- Peter