As slow as molasses! Don't expect hard drive transfer rates because of the
parallel port bottleneck. I generally can move 600 Meg in about 30 minutes
with a good ECP port. It's best use is for storing or transferring a lot of
data, not for dynamic use. Good for laptops.
Doug
At 11/17/99 04:23 PM , Olushola Sowande wrote:
>Doug Simmons wrote:
> >
> > I use a device called DataTank, which has parallel port connection with
> > it's own power supply. It accepts any IDE device and makes the device
> > portable.
>
>What's the transfer speed of DataTank? I can see applications for
>this, especially in for video where people port huge files among
>them.
>
>Olushola
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