I am preparing for the arrival of a new laptop next week. I will be going from a Jan 2003 Dell Inspiron 8200 with a 40 GB Internal Hard Drive to a HP dv9000t with dual 120 GB internal Hard drives. Right now I am using an 320 GB external to store about 105 GB of files (2/3rds of which are .mp3s for my ipod). I am also using a 750 GB external for backing up. I have been using Norton Ghost 9.0. I finally upgraded to Norton Save & Restore (Ghost 11.0).
I have discovered several things:
1. The default compression level backup takes up the same amout of space. (about 20% compression on internal drives and almost no compression on external drives).
2. Internal system drives back up over 50% faster (1112 MB/Min vs between 624-724) .
3. External drives back up about 15% faster (468 vs 323-394).
4. However, I attempted to partition my internal hard drive. I have discovered that the nonsystem partition backs up slower than both the internal system partition and the external hard drive (287).
Why is the non system partition so much slower to back up? Is there anything I can do?
I have discovered several things:
1. The default compression level backup takes up the same amout of space. (about 20% compression on internal drives and almost no compression on external drives).
2. Internal system drives back up over 50% faster (1112 MB/Min vs between 624-724) .
3. External drives back up about 15% faster (468 vs 323-394).
4. However, I attempted to partition my internal hard drive. I have discovered that the nonsystem partition backs up slower than both the internal system partition and the external hard drive (287).
Why is the non system partition so much slower to back up? Is there anything I can do?
. However, the difference is spurious due to significant figures (one part took 7 minutes to backup and the other took 21). Both were much faster than the external drive which backed up at 451.7 MB/min.