On 07/13/2015 03:13 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Mon, 2015-07-13 at 13:50 -0600, jd1008 wrote:
I started a tar command from one external eSATA drive (ext4), connected to eSATA port, out to a USB flash drive (with vfat). The USB stick is touted to support 50MB/s write, 160MB/s read.
Have you actually measured its real write speed for large files? Try something like:
time dd if=/dev/zero of=/the/usb/drive count=1000 bs=1M
You might be surprised.
poc
As I just replied with the actual read/write performance data on this USB 3.0 SUperTalentExpress Drive (256GB), I am much more surprised by the fact that while tarring a large dir to it from a fast eSATA drive, the system becomes nearly unusable!!! So, if this "shtick" is so slow, why is writing to it killing the response time for everything else?