capspire-ossiemoore:~ ossiemoore$ pwd
/Users/ossiemoore
capspire-ossiemoore:~ ossiemoore$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=1024 count=102400
102400+0 records in
102400+0 records out
104857600 bytes transferred in 0.887727 secs (118119194 bytes/sec)

real    0m0.895s
user    0m0.026s
sys 0m0.327s
capspire-ossiemoore:~ ossiemoore$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=1024 count=102400
102400+0 records in
102400+0 records out
104857600 bytes transferred in 0.929924 secs (112759321 bytes/sec)

real    0m0.937s
user    0m0.030s
sys 0m0.330s
capspire-ossiemoore:~ ossiemoore$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=1024 count=102400
102400+0 records in
102400+0 records out
104857600 bytes transferred in 0.828685 secs (126534925 bytes/sec)

real    0m0.839s
user    0m0.026s
sys 0m0.327s
capspire-ossiemoore:~ ossiemoore$ cd /Volumes/
.DS_Store               FreeAgent GoFlex Drive/ Macintosh HD/           iDisk/                  ossieandkaren/
capspire-ossiemoore:~ ossiemoore$ cd /Volumes/FreeAgent\ GoFlex\ Drive/
capspire-ossiemoore:FreeAgent GoFlex Drive ossiemoore$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=1024 count=102400
102400+0 records in
102400+0 records out
104857600 bytes transferred in 2.068779 secs (50685743 bytes/sec)

real    0m2.199s
user    0m0.026s
sys 0m0.347s
capspire-ossiemoore:FreeAgent GoFlex Drive ossiemoore$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=1024 count=102400
102400+0 records in
102400+0 records out
104857600 bytes transferred in 1.551608 secs (67579952 bytes/sec)

real    0m1.683s
user    0m0.027s
sys 0m0.357s
capspire-ossiemoore:FreeAgent GoFlex Drive ossiemoore$ time dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=1024 count=102400
102400+0 records in
102400+0 records out
104857600 bytes transferred in 1.553897 secs (67480400 bytes/sec)

real    0m1.684s
user    0m0.027s
sys 0m0.359s
capspire-ossiemoore:FreeAgent GoFlex Drive ossiemoore$