Just finished, dding my ST3160812AS (160 GB/SATA/Seagate) onto ST3160812AV (160 GB/PATA/Seagate):
sh-3.2# dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sda bs=64943040 8+0 records in 8+0 records out 519544320 bytes (520 MB) copied, 9.68668 s, 53.6 MB/s 13+0 records in 13+0 records out 844259520 bytes (844 MB) copied, 17.9687 s, 47.0 MB/s 19+0 records in 19+0 records out 1233917760 bytes (1.2 GB) copied, 27.9116 s, 44.2 MB/s 217+0 records in 217+0 records out 14092639680 bytes (14 GB) copied, 400.011 s, 35.2 MB/s 454+0 records in 453+0 records out 29419197120 bytes (29 GB) copied, 847.458 s, 34.7 MB/s 529+0 records in 528+0 records out 34289925120 bytes (34 GB) copied, 991.407 s, 34.6 MB/s 670+0 records in 669+0 records out 43446893760 bytes (43 GB) copied, 1260.98 s, 34.5 MB/s 673+0 records in 672+0 records out 43641722880 bytes (44 GB) copied, 1266.12 s, 34.5 MB/s 763+0 records in 763+0 records out 49551539520 bytes (50 GB) copied, 1443.54 s, 34.3 MB/s 820+0 records in 819+0 records out 53188349760 bytes (53 GB) copied, 1552.44 s, 34.3 MB/s 1099+0 records in 1099+0 records out 71372400960 bytes (71 GB) copied, 2103.98 s, 33.9 MB/s 1144+0 records in 1144+0 records out 74294837760 bytes (74 GB) copied, 2194.04 s, 33.9 MB/s 1329+0 records in 1328+0 records out 86244357120 bytes (86 GB) copied, 2568.23 s, 33.6 MB/s 1356+0 records in 1356+0 records out 88062762240 bytes (88 GB) copied, 2623.02 s, 33.6 MB/s 1440+0 records in 1440+0 records out 93517977600 bytes (94 GB) copied, 2795 s, 33.5 MB/s 1638+0 records in 1637+0 records out 106311756480 bytes (106 GB) copied, 3211.79 s, 33.1 MB/s 1782+0 records in 1781+0 records out 115663554240 bytes (116 GB) copied, 3521.31 s, 32.8 MB/s 2033+0 records in 2033+0 records out 132029200320 bytes (132 GB) copied, 4085.72 s, 32.3 MB/s 2144+0 records in 2143+0 records out 139172934720 bytes (139 GB) copied, 4344.01 s, 32.0 MB/s 2300+0 records in 2299+0 records out 149304048960 bytes (149 GB) copied, 4724.12 s, 31.6 MB/s 2388+0 records in 2388+0 records out 155083979520 bytes (155 GB) copied, 4950.18 s, 31.3 MB/s 2447+0 records in 2446+0 records out 158850675840 bytes (159 GB) copied, 5106.49 s, 31.1 MB/s 2464+1 records in 2464+1 records out 160041885696 bytes (160 GB) copied, 5171.74 s, 30.9 MB/s
[...] The whole process took less than an hour as compared to 1 hr. 25 min. when dded my SATA disk to PATA disk. [...]
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