>Is it slower than the USB is *supposed* to be?  USB is not fast.

The external disk is a:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=333
It has:
Serial Bus Transfer Rate (USB 2.0)      480 Mbits/s (Max)

The soekris port is 2.0 capable "usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0".
I'm getting an average transfer rate of 5350 KB/s.

By the way, the internal disk is a:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.asp?driveid=477

Kind regards,

Tom

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