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
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com



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