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