I have never encountered higher compression speeding things up before…very odd /
It suggests that the data channel to the *destination* drive is the main bottleneck.
I have never encountered higher compression speeding things up before…very odd /
It suggests that the data channel to the *destination* drive is the main bottleneck.
Yes. I've found that compression (typically at lower compression settings) can sometimes speed things up when imaging to a destination drive connected via USB 2.0 (e.g. when acquiring from the original device using a Boot CD). Obviously mileage varies depending on the compressibility of the source.
It doesn't sound like that's the case here, although the type and connectivity of the destination drive isn't specified only that the source is a SATA drive connected by USB 3.0.
on mine I have an SSD for the OS drive and these Western Digital Red WD30EFRX 3TB IntelliPower SATA3/SATA 6.0 GB/s 64MB Enterprise Hard Drive (3.5 inch) Drive E,F as my data storage drives
On the computer we did the tests on I have no idea..