[GTALUG] some USB sticks are slow!

William Park opengeometry at yahoo.ca
Sun Sep 29 14:42:00 EDT 2019


On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 11:46:07AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
>   7135559680 bytes (7.1 GB, 6.6 GiB) copied, 1560.63 s, 4.6 MB/s

Sounds about right.  If the packaging doesn't say write speed, then
there is a reason why they didn't advertised it.  I have 128GB Samsung
USB stick, advertised 135MB/s read speed.  Yes, its read speed is
correct.  What they didn't say is its write speed, which is about
5MB/s!!
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William Park <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>


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