Benchmarked: Onnto DataTale eSATA Port

I was a bit confused about the relative slow speed of the external box, so I put the new box through two tests. One on Mac OS X using XBench and the other on inside Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 using HD Tune Trial. Click to read the full post

Slow copying using rsync on Mac OS X?

Last night I’ve started the backup – pardon – rsync process – of our STORAGE volume to the newer BACKUP device. While both devices are connected via eSATA (Sonnet PCIe x1 eSATA card in the Mac Pro with Sil3132 chip), the copy process is what I would describe as very slow. Click to read the full post