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 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
