RE: lazarus speed

Antoine,

lazarus does take it's time. It reads the large file, 1kb at a time
and applies several techniques to find out about the contents
of this 1kb block. Then it copies it to the blocks directory and
updates the block map description. So seek times may be
more important than disk throughput rates but depending on
the type of drive in your external USB case, you may still
benefit by going to a speedy internal drive, e.g. a high RPM
SCSI drive. I remember needing around 12-15 hours for 1 GB
of data two years ago on a standard IDE PC.

Best regards,

Knut