[wellylug] Writing in slow motion

[David Antliff]

On Tue, 9 May 2006, E.Chalaron wrote:
> I have something I am not sure of here : I have a couple of external HD here
> and copying (huge) files (~ 50 Gb) across is just painfully slow. However if
> I launch my script to write to these external HD directly it is much
> faster... How come ?

I don't think I completely understand your question - however, if you're 
shifting files across some shared external interface (e.g. USB via your 
PC/host) then isn't it naturally going to be slower than a unidirectional copy?

-- 
David.