Thumb drive ext2 slow write speed

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/11/3 Nigel Ridley <nigel at prayingforisrael.net>:
> I just got a new SanDisk 2GB cruzer micro and formatted it to ext2 (using qtparted).
> I then proceeded to copy just under 600MB of data --- it took more than 10 minutes! What's going
> on? Is it because of ext2? Should I reformat it as ext3?
> This is on a Dell Inspiron 1525 (with USB 2).
>
> Blessings,
>
> Nigel

Do you have any particular reason for formatting as ext2? USB flash
drives are very good for using across multiple computers, therefore I
format as FAT 32 so that the occasional Windows machine will recognize
it. I have the same drive, by the way, though I am not sure what speed
it runs at.

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