Note that the copying can be done MUCH (10-20X) faster if the two drives are removed from the empeg and connected to a faster Linux desktop system for copying.

And regardless of method, enabling the on-drive write cache will speed things up quite a bit as well:

hdparm -W1 -K1 /dev/hda /dev/hdb

Cheers


Edited by mlord (10/01/2011 12:36)