[ale] Copy time for USB ext HDD

[Scott]

Tim Watts wrote:
> On Saturday 20 June 2009 12:44:58 pm Scott wrote:
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>> 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.
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> 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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cp -rvp