------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rockbox UMS Code writing test (2 Megabytes, straight to the device, no filesystem overhead) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ▻ time dd if=usb_write_test_file seek=81481328 of=/dev/sdb1 bs=1 count=2048000 2048000+0 records in 2048000+0 records out 2048000 bytes (2.0 MB) copied, 11.4601 seconds, 179 kB/s real 0m11.508s user 0m0.468s sys 0m3.916s ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apple Emergency Disk Mode writing test (2 Megabytes, straight to the device, no filesystem overhead) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ▻ time dd if=usb_write_test_file seek=81481328 of=/dev/sdb1 bs=1 count=2048000 2048000+0 records in 2048000+0 records out 2048000 bytes (2.0 MB) copied, 13.6215 seconds, 150 kB/s real 0m13.714s user 0m0.384s sys 0m3.584s ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Apple Original Firmware writing test (2 Megabytes, straight to the device, no filesystem overhead) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ▻ time dd if=usb_write_test_file seek=81481328 of=/dev/sdb1 bs=1 count=2048000 2048000+0 records in 2048000+0 records out 2048000 bytes (2.0 MB) copied, 5.67416 seconds, 361 kB/s real 0m5.715s user 0m0.456s sys 0m3.556s