On 06/20/2009 03:37 PM, David A. Merritt wrote: > > How is the disk you are copying *to* formatted? If it is an NTFS-formatted > drive, this is typical. The write-capable file system for NTFS is a > FUSE layer and is very slow. > > It doesn't look much slower than native filesystems. http://www.ntfs-3g.org/performance.html All the best, Brian Pitts