Thumb drive ext2 slow write speed

[Jonas Norlander]

2008/11/4 Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>:
> Jonas Norlander wrote:
>> So what can the theoretical write speed be with USB 2?
>
> The USB 2.0 data rate is 480 Mbit/s or 60MB/s minus overhead (-> probably
> 40-50MB/s). The limiting factor here is your device.
>
>> I have a
>> Corsair Survival 16 Gb and the test I seen on the net shows a write
>> speed of more then 20 MB/sec but I'm far from that during my test.
>
> Are you sure that is the write speed not read speed? I mean, 20MB/s is
> really fast. Do you have a URL for the test?
>
>

Here is one
http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews/Corsair_Survivor_GT_8GB_Flash_Drive/