Birds are faster than internet

Markus Zeller — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:27:19 +0000

On Netzzeitung.de I read a curious article about internet speed. It tells about the experiment how fast data can be spread in comparision to the internet. And guess what? The internet lost against a carrier pigeon.

The bird got a tiny 4 GB memory card and transported it over a distance of about 85 kilometres. It took just one hour and eight minutes at non-optimal weather conditions.

Downloading the same data over the same distance with a high speed ADSL connection amount took more than two times longer the bird winged.

Sources: Article, Image

Running Virtual Machines from a USB stick

Markus Zeller — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:43:50 +0000

Since I got my 16 GB USB memory stick, which is a quite huge storage amount, I got the idea to make the best out of it and do a performance test.

Many disc accesses are usually done with a Virtual Machine, so I put a blank Parallels Windows XP virtual machine image to the stick, hoping the speed would be fantastic.

But, the hope still remains a hope. The speed is just OK, and absolutely not faster than directly starting from a harddisk. The USB probing sais 480Mb/sec which is a maximum of 6 MB per second, but the average speed I could measure in fact is 5.2 MB per second.

That is absolutely too slow and the conclusion for me is, that flash memory is only really fast if it will provided over the S-ATA port.

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Birds are faster than internet

Running Virtual Machines from a USB stick