I was wondering if anyone had any expertise to share about USB hard drives. I'm finding that access to mine seems terribly slow; far slower than I think it ought to be. I'm trying to use one as an external backup device. Because I was careless, I didn't wipe the drive first (it was originally used as a backup device in a removable hard-drive drawer, before a recent upgrade), so have been deleting directories prior to copying stuff onto it, but this seems terribly, terribly slow. For example: rm -rf for 3 megabytes: 50 seconds rm -rf for 5.5 megabytes: 2 minutes 40 seconds! At this rate my backups are going to be very time-consuming! Is there some tuning or hdparming sort of thing I should do? thanks, R _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list