Grsync test - 2010-02-06 01

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Grsync test - 2010-02-06 01

Date: 2010-02-06

Conducted by: Glenn

Purpose/Goal
Test speed of duplication from one ubs attached hdd to another

Hardware/Software

 * Grsync
 * Intel PC running Ubuntu 9.10
 * Sans Digital 2-bay external hdd mount connected over USB 2.0
 * 2x NTFS formatted hdds

Procedure

 * 1) Run grsync: Applications>System Tools>Grsync
 * 2) Select source: /media/NTFS_M_01/Q_test/DIGITIZED/TIFF/A61/ [contains 1000 .tif image files; 7.4GB]
 * 3) Select destination: /media/NTFS_M_02/received/
 * 4) select options:
 * 5) preserve time
 * 6) verbose
 * 7) show transfer in progress
 * 8) always checksum
 * 9) Execute transfer

Results

 * transfer successful
 * transfered 7.4 GB [1000 files] in 00:14:28
 * transfer rate ~.51 GB/minute