Invisible wrote:
> Tim Cook wrote:
> 
>> About 7x faster to read from internal than write to external USB at 
>> what it's currently doing, but it should be getting 47 MB/s the way it 
>> started out instead of plodding along at 13...
> 
> Disk fragmentation?

Or memory buffering, depending on how much RAM you have. I regularly 
wind up in the situation where I make 10 gig of changes in a short 
timeframe on the machine with 16G of RAM, and the (say) untar finishes 
in 40 seconds, and running 'sync' afterwards takes another 90. :-)

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   Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."

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