Slow tranfers to USB drive

[Aviss,Tyler]

just out of curiousity, why use FAT32 if you're not using it with a  
windows box?

(sent from my phone, so please excuse the typos)

On 24-May-09, at 7:25 PM, JoeHill <joehill-R6A+fiHC8nRWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> 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?
>
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