Need help quirking my HDD

[Arne Wörner]

--- Anthony Wyatt <anthony.wyatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm having problems getting this most out of my USB 2.0 HDD.
> [...]
> As you can see 1MB/s for a USB2 device is quite sad, and I'm
> not really sure where to start to fix it.
> 
It might be even worse. As far as I have been told, the 1MB/s are
just a quick shot by the CAM system. In reality the transfer rate
might be lower...

Have you tried a
  dd of=/dev/null bs=128k count=1000 if=/dev/da0
from that device?

-Arne



		
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