In comp.os.linux.misc unix_fan <tmellman@web.de> wrote:
> I just had an interesting experience - a task I had was about 67x faster
> under Solaris than when I'd previously run it under SuSE Linux.
>
> I keep backups in a format I call .cgz - compressed cpio.
>
> I have such a backup that's about 6gig of uncompressed data.
>
> I wanted to expand it from the DVD it's on onto a new USB drive I have.
>
> It just took 36 hours to run the command:
>
> gzip -cd /media/K3something-or-other | cpio -icvd usb-dir
>
> I don't recall that creating the backup took overnight, but extracting it
> certainly did.
>
> Just on a hunch, I ran the restore on the Solaris system I just set up on
> the USB drive. It took about 32 minutes.
>
> You can't believe what a joy it was to see the DVD light on solid, rather
> than the stumbling sometimes on, sometimes off that happened under Linux.
>
>
> Some details to the task/test:
>
> The Linux test was from my desktop which has SuSE 10 running on an
> approximately 1GHz cpu and about 256 MB memory.

Try another distro - I would recommend Troll Linux for your needs. It
has blindingly fast USB transfer speeds.

--
Stephen Chadfield