aeva on Nostr: i'm dd-ing a backup of /dev/sda (120gb) over to usb3 backup drive attached to a ...

i'm dd-ing a backup of /dev/sda (120gb) over to usb3 backup drive attached to a different computer over the network because i'm skeptical this machine has usb3 ports (i think it's just a touch too old for that, though i didn't check first). speed seems to peak with bs=512k (40.7 MB/s). both drives are platter hard drives not SSDs