On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Lothar Wassmann wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 15 Apr 2005, Olav Kongas wrote:
> > Leaving aside what may be "the best" way to measure the USB 
> > performance, I did it with usb-2.0 memory stick, which was 
> > the only device attached at the measurement time. With this 
> > controller, it's in full speed mode, of course. Mounting a 
> > stick that contained a 16 MB file and issuing:
> > 
> > time if=a_16MB_file_on_stick of=/dev/null bs=16k
> > 
> I'd rather read data from the raw device than from a file system on
> top of it, thus:
> time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=16k count=1024

You are right, thanks. This pushed the rate to 742 kiB/s.

Olav


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