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Old Feb 14, 2016, 2:24 pm
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Originally Posted by dlerner
IT's usually considerably faster to use Disk Utility for this kind of copy rather than the Finder.
How would CLI dd compare in speed? At least in the Linux world that's the usual tool to copy drives - like dd if=OLDDRIVE of=NEWDRIVE bs=64K
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