On 2008-12-19 07:56 +0100, Juha Tuuna wrote: > rjubio wrote: >> How long does a dd command take for an 80 GB IDE hd? > > It depends on your hardware, are you writing or reading and other possible I/O > on that disk. On a laptop I got 3MiB/s on average. You do the math. Seems like the disk was in PIO mode, 3 MB/s is horribly slow. Sven