Classic running out of memory... huh? what? <long>

[Lloyd Kvam]

On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 13:41 -0400, bruce.labitt at autoliv.com wrote:
> I bet it won't do 480Mbits sustained. 
> (For a 10 GB file write) However, I just might try it for the heck of
> it!
I use external USB and firewire drives fairly regularly.  USB does not
come close to achieving 48 MB / sec.  Firewire (400 mb flavor) does
noticeably better than USB.  

Would dd from /dev/zero to /dev/sdX would be a reasonable way to
benchmark the interface at the expense of any data on the drive?

(I suppose higher quality hardware might do better.  I assume these are
commodity parts and essentially buy what's on sale.)

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