slow transfer to usbstick

[Yorvyk]

On Wed, 04 Jan 2012 21:03:45 +0100
Alessio Tomelleri <alessio.tomelleri at gmail.com> wrote:

> 
> It's past long time until nowadays and still I'm suffering of this
> problem, I remember the same problem also with Natty. I've an notebook
> Asus X53S (MB ver. F3SA) with Ubuntu 11.10. In the meanwhile that I'm
> writing this mail, I'm also transferring a folder on an usb stick (about
> something more of 4Gb with 16 files, some of this are of 1Gb of size)
> and the current speed is less of 1Mb, of course I'm writing about  usb
> 2.0. Notice, that with external hard disk (same usb port), the speed
> transfer is about 20/30Mb
> 
> please a solution is required, it's really annoying this problem.
> 
Could it be as simple as the flash drive being rather slow.  I have a some cheap flash drives that dawdle along at 2-3Mb/s no matter which machine or OS is used.


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Yorvyk