Just finished, dding my ST3160812AV (160 GB/PATA/Seagate) onto ST3160812AS (160 GB/SATA/Seagate):
chatteau ~ # dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/sdb bs=64M 9+0 records in 8+0 records out 536870912 bytes (537 MB) copied, 10.5324 s, 51.0 MB/s 26+0 records in 26+0 records out 1744830464 bytes (1.7 GB) copied, 29.3277 s, 59.5 MB/s 35+0 records in 34+0 records out 2281701376 bytes (2.3 GB) copied, 38.9617 s, 58.6 MB/s 77+0 records in 76+0 records out 5100273664 bytes (5.1 GB) copied, 84.8692 s, 60.1 MB/s 104+0 records in 103+0 records out 6912212992 bytes (6.9 GB) copied, 114.29 s, 60.5 MB/s 197+0 records in 196+0 records out 13153337344 bytes (13 GB) copied, 216.665 s, 60.7 MB/s 267+0 records in 267+0 records out 17918066688 bytes (18 GB) copied, 294.418 s, 60.9 MB/s 796+0 records in 796+0 records out 53418655744 bytes (53 GB) copied, 895.93 s, 59.6 MB/s 1783+0 records in 1782+0 records out 119587995648 bytes (120 GB) copied, 2173.03 s, 55.0 MB/s 2333+0 records in 2332+0 records out 156497870848 bytes (156 GB) copied, 3087.42 s, 50.7 MB/s 2380+0 records in 2379+0 records out 159651987456 bytes (160 GB) copied, 3185.21 s, 50.1 MB/s 2384+1 records in 2384+1 records out 160041885696 bytes (160 GB) copied, 3198.33 s, 50.0 MB/s
The whole process took less than an hour as compared to 1 hr. 25 min. when I dded my SATA disk to PATA disk.
