[ale] usb drives suck

[Geoffrey]

Maybe I don't have a good understanding of these things, but every time 
I try to write a substantial amount of data, gigs of data, it seems to 
take forever and the load average is through the roof.  Mostly it's %wait.

Am I expecting more then these things are capable of?

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson