Hi,

I have loaded large GB sessions before. Over 10 hours straight without powering down the drive. Not recommended for drive reliability but, it will do it. I prefer 10 to 20GB sessions to allow everything to cool in between sessions.

With Ethernet interface, it will load around 2.5GB/hour hours. USB, well now, that's just real slow. Believe me, I loaded my 120GB drives with that and Ethernet is MUCH FASTER.

If you think about it, that is pretty good reliability for the Empeg and host system to sustain the 2.5GB/hour transfer. The host has a Seagate 750GB 7200 RPM ATA-6 drive with a SATA to IDE adapter and still sustains the transfer without errors.

Good Luck,

Ross
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