Re: DD command

[rjubio <rjubio@gmail.com>]

Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2008-12-19 07:36 +0100, rjubio wrote:
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> > How long does a dd command take for an 80 GB IDE hd?
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> Not long ago I zeroed out the disk of my old machine because I wanted to
> sell it, and that took 80 GB /(53 MiB/s) = 25 minutes.
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> Sven
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I dont get it. I've been getting 3.3 MiB/s on my machine. And this has 
some pretty good specs because we will use this as a production machine.