Sept. 21, 2010, 10:32 a.m.
IT

Copying a 1TB HDD from Linux to an SMB share on a Mac

root@waldopc:/# time dd if=/dev/sda of=/mnt/backup/192.168.0.20.hdd bs=65536
15261915+1 records in
15261915+1 records out

1000204886016 bytes (1.0 TB) copied, 49638.9 s, 20.1 MB/s

That is... Almost 14 hours. Eish.