[TriLUG] external USB drive is slow

[Joseph Mack NA3T]

On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Alan Porter wrote:

> I tried "dd if=/dev/zero of=/mountpoint/test bs=1M count=1k",
> and it took 150 seconds.  That's 57 Mbps.  Better than USB 1.0,
> but not nearly what USB 2.0 can do.

(I think you have an external hard disk on the end of the 
USB)

how fast is the disk inside your external enclosure? ie is 
this the limit of the disk?

Joe

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