Dreamplug USB drive performance

I attached an USB drive to my new toy (dreamplug) to see what performance can I expect. Let me share the results:

dreamplug-debian:/mnt/disk# dd if=/dev/zero of=j bs=1024 count=1000000         
1000000+0 records in                                                           
1000000+0 records out                                                          
1024000000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 61.06 s, 16.8 MB/s                           
dreamplug-debian:/mnt/disk# dd if=j of=/dev/null bs=1024 count=1000000         
1000000+0 records in                                                           
1000000+0 records out                                                          
1024000000 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 37.4651 s, 27.3 MB/s                         

I think I am happy with these results. The filesystem was reiserfs.