To everyone who were interested in the comparison between the 2 devices.
Sandisk titanium 2gb results: copy of 734156800 bytes took real 1m38.763s user 0m0.008s sys 0m2.304s hdparm -tT /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdc1: Timing cached reads: 1400 MB in 2.00 seconds = 700.17 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 50 MB in 3.05 seconds = 16.37 MB/sec Sandisk cruzer 2gb copy of the same file real 1m45.324s user 0m0.016s sys 0m2.280s hdparm -tT /dev/sda1: Timing cached reads: 1366 MB in 2.00 seconds = 682.42 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 42 MB in 3.12 seconds = 13.47 MB/sec Don't know why it took this time so long to copy the file. usually on the titanium it takes less than 1 min. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]