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> Either way, you do want to do compression regardless of > source (OS or backup program). Most USB drives top out at > under 40MB/s transfer rate while the drives themselves can > sustain 60+. The USB interface is the bottleneck and the > only way to minimize that is to shrink the amount of data. > Compression, obviously, does that. Good point. I did a test differential backup with no compression. It took 2.5 _times_ as long as software compression. I would not have guessed that much of a difference.
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