Why USB harddrive is so slow under FreeBSD?

Yuri yuri at rawbw.com
Sun Apr 12 21:53:49 UTC 2009


Dan Nelson wrote:
>
> Increase your blocksize.  dd's default is 512 bytes.  Try bs=64k
>   

This works, I am getting 25-27 MB/s. Still lower than this device 
supports (~50MB/s).
I guess because this VIA controller is very old.

Yuri



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