Slow tranfers to USB drive

Mon Jun 1 20:35:17 UTC 2009

On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 10:25:41PM -0400, JoeHill wrote:
> I'm seeing very slow transfer speeds to my USB2 multimedia drive. It's down to
> about 1MB/s right now, which is pretty painful. All other USB2 devices like my
> thumb drive are 'normal', ie. I usually see about 10 MB/s, give or take.
> 
> Is it possible that this one drive (fat32) is becoming fragmented, and this is
> impacting the transfer speeds? If this is a potential cause, how would I go
> about defragmenting a fat32 drive without access to Windows?

Maybe it is a USB1 device, or it is connected to a USB1 hub, or a hub
shared with USB1 devices, or to a USB1 only port.

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Len Sorensen
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