Koen Linders wrote: > I did a little test with my laptop. > > VMware server 2.0 free download > Memory available for OS 384 MB > Debian etch > Freecom Hard Drive Pro 250 GB USB2 disk formatted ext3 bs 4096 > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=4k count=300k > 307200+0 records in > 307200+0 records out > 1258291200 bytes (1.3 GB) copied, 63.8275 seconds, 19.7 MB/s > > dd of=/dev/null if=/dev/sdb1 bs=4k count=300k > 307200+0 records in > 307200+0 records out > 1258291200 bytes (1.3 GB) copied, 70.719 seconds, 17.8 MB/s > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb1 bs=64k count=100k > 102400+0 records in > 102400+0 records out > 6710886400 bytes (6.7 GB) copied, 324.055 seconds, 20.5 MB/s > > If you want another test, i can easily install something else on this VM > debian, cause it's only a test system.
Thanks - I updated VMware server on my XP laptop to the 2.0 version and got around 15+ MB/s with hdparm -tT and an older IDE drive with a USB adapter. Not great, but probably usable - and it will make it easy to use Centos with my custom install location in the image. I was also able to use this setup to build a bootable USB clonezille with the zip file contents you can download in a small fat partition and the rest of the drive as an ext3 partition to hold images. I still had some trouble getting it to boot every time but but I think that is a problem on the laptop. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: High Quality Requirements in a Collaborative Environment. Download a free trial of Rational Requirements Composer Now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/www-ibm-com _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/