[Bug 197762] Re: file transfers on USB flash key (pendrive) are slowing down with time

[gdneil]

Hello....  Just commenting on the same problem - which for me also
appeared with external USB hard drives....  Transfer rate slowing down
with large files.

Tried all of the suggestions...

-Starting with pci=routeirq helped a little maybe?
-Turning off image preview in Nautilus might have helped a little?
-Reformatting externals (flash and HDs) to ntfs instead of fat helped the most
-Recompiling the latest ntfs-3g helped a little more

And then in frustration, I installed Debian(Squeeze) on an extra
partition and timed transfers of big files of different types (fat32,
ntfs, ext3, ext4) and found that Debian was much much much faster in all
cases.  Unfortunately though, I seem to have lost the notes with my
actual timings....   Not sure if this helps, but hope it might... the
problem (for me at least) seems to be coming from the Ubuntu side...

I've used Ubuntu since 8.10 and it has always been slower at
transferring files than Windows, but 9.10 was significantly worse.  Kind
of useable with the mods above, but nowhere near debian.  Tried putting
some of the relevant debian packages into my ubuntu installation, but no
luck (and not enough knowledge/experience in these things I admit) but
maybe a possible direction?  For now though, finding myself more often
booting Debian.

All the best,
-Neil

Toshiba Libretto U100
1gb RAM, lots of external HDs

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file transfers on USB flash key (pendrive) are slowing down with time
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