IDE to USB Cable 2.0 (Myson Century, Inc.)

Buffalo Linkstation Pro LS-320GL: fsck.ext3 (e2fsck)

root@LS-GL7D6:~# fsck.ext3 -nv /dev/sda6

e2fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
/dev/sda6: clean, 475373/38977536 files, 4281295/77933315 blocks

root@LS-GL7D6:~# time fsck.ext3 -nv /dev/sda6 -f

e2fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006)
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information

 475373 inodes used (1.22%)
  11683 non-contiguous inodes (2.5%)
        # of inodes with ind/dind/tind blocks: 6426/51/1
4281295 blocks used (5.49%)
      0 bad blocks
      2 large files

 413742 regular files
  54207 directories
   1358 character device files
    450 block device files
      3 fifos
   1134 links
   5602 symbolic links (5502 fast symbolic links)
      2 sockets
--------
 476498 files

real    10m28.463s
user    2m25.740s
sys     6m1.330s

root@LS-GL7D6:/mnt/disk1# time dd if=GenLink_arm9-1.0pre2-20070130.tar.bz2 of=delelte.me

204360+1 records in
204360+1 records out
104632786 bytes (105 MB) copied, 17.7344 seconds, 5.9 MB/s <-- SLOW!!

real    0m17.776s
user    0m1.620s
sys     0m12.890s

Samsung HM080HC 80GB 2.5" Hard Drive (5V 0.85A)

Specification
HK$500 with 3 years warranty, or $705 for a 120GB.

$ dmesg

usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
usb 1-4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 5
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
scsi 2:0:0:0: Direct-Access SAMSUNG HM080HC AM10 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 CCS
SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 14 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 156301488 512-byte hdwr sectors (80026 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 00 14 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: unknown partition table
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda
sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete

$ hdparm -v /dev/sda