[ale] Copy time for USB ext HDD

[timtw at earthlink.net (Tim Watts)]

On Saturday 20 June 2009 12:44:58 pm Scott wrote:
> Trying out an external USB HDD enclosure to copy files from my system
> and it seems to be a lot slower than I had thought. I have a new Seagate
> 500GB SATA in the enclosure and I started to do a copy of my music
> library consisting of about 76GB flac files. I started at 16:24
> yesterday and it is now at 60GB at 12:44. Is that right? Math was never
> a strong point for me.

How are you copying? Via a command (rsync etc.) or a drag-and-drop operation? 
I tried copying a huge volume once via drag-and-drop and got terrible 
performance (this was using Dolphin in KDE4).


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