Slow tranfers to USB drive

[Thomas Milne]

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Aviss,Tyler <tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> just out of curiousity, why use FAT32 if you're not using it with a windows
> box?

It's a multimedia drive that can play video files out to TV. It has to
be either NTFS or FAT.

> (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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