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From: Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com>
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On Sun, 18 Jan 2004, Gilad Rom wrote:

> I'm using dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad2 bs=16k for my disks (2x20GB, EIDE,
> UDMA100), and it takes roughly 28 minutes.

i've used dd to ghost two 36GB scsi hard disks on two separate controllers
in about 18 minutes. i used 1024k as my block size. using 10240K as block
size slowed it down somewhat, coming in at about 30 minutes.

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