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Date:      Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:53:42 -0700
From:      Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>
To:        Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Why USB harddrive is so slow under FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <49E262E6.6010206@rawbw.com>
In-Reply-To: <20090412212118.GE90152@dan.emsphone.com>
References:  <49E246EC.50702@rawbw.com> <20090412212118.GE90152@dan.emsphone.com>

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Dan Nelson wrote:
>
> Increase your blocksize.  dd's default is 512 bytes.  Try bs=64k
>   

This works, I am getting 25-27 MB/s. Still lower than this device 
supports (~50MB/s).
I guess because this VIA controller is very old.

Yuri




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