On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 7:23 PM, Dawning Sky <the.dawning.sky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Dawning Sky <the.dawning.sky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> It appears clonezilla is using dd and the speed is extremely >> slow (~5MB/sec) and it says it's gonna take 1 day to clone the 500GB. > > BTW, is it normal for dd to be this slow, or is there something wrong > with my setup? These are quite modern drives and should be able to > handle sequential transfer of 10's of MB/s. I have never used dd > before so I don't have any experience. dd should be pretty close to the max possible throughput of yer drive. For example, I dd'd a 1T WD black not too long ago & it was around 120MB/s on the outside & 70MB/s in the middle. Wil -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
