[GTALUG] some USB sticks are slow!

[dbmacg at look.ca]

I never did get Win10 running on an HP laptop with a 32Gb drive. I gave up
and went Linux, which now leaves me about 21 gb to work with.

I didn't know that Microsoft provides support. First I have heard about it!

Duncan


> | From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
>
> | SanDisk Cruzer Glide 16GB USB stick
>
> |   7135559680 bytes (7.1 GB, 6.6 GiB) copied, 1560.63 s, 4.6 MB/s
> |   real	26m4.152s
>
> ================
>
> Corsair Voyager SliderX1 32G stick:
>
>   7135559680 bytes (7.1 GB, 6.6 GiB) copied, 279.491 s, 25.5 MB/s
>   real	4m44.206s
>
> ================
>
> ADATA C103 USB Flash Drive 64G
>
>   7135559680 bytes (7.1 GB, 6.6 GiB) copied, 155.161 s, 46.0 MB/s
>   real	2m38.244s
>
> ================
>
> (the real time includes the second or two that it takes me to enter my
> password.)
>
> ================
>
> [A slightly relevant Windows war story.  Really a whine.  Consider
> skipping.]
>
> I've been wrestling with Win10.  It really isn't good doing Windows
> Update with a 32G "HDD".
>
> Why should it handle this size?  Because Microsoft forced this size upper
> limit on manufacturers with their licensing terms.  I even bought a
> few such machines from Microsoft itself.  (They run Linux just fine.)
>
> I recently got stuck with not enough space on C: (think /root).  Even
> when I threw everything overboard.  One possible victim was left: the
> Paging File.  It was stubbornly stuck at 1.1GiB.  I wanted to put a
> paging file on another drive so that I could get back the 1.1G of
> space on C:.
>
> The documentation says that this is possible with a USB stick or SD
> card iff it was ReadyBoost ready.  That supposedly means "fast
> enough".
>
> - ReadyBoost is an obsolete technology.  Vendors don't sell ReadyBoost
>   ready devices
>
> - there is a ReadyBoost tab when you look at device properties in
>   Win10.  It just tells me that it is disabled on my computer because
>   I have an SSD c:.  Not useful.  I want to know about ReadyBoost
>   ready, not actually use ReadyBoost.
>
> - the Paging File configuration setting (buried way deep in Win10)
>   doesn't see my USB flash sticks or my SD card.
>
> - the Paging File configuration setting does see an external USB HDD.
>   So I try that.
>
>   When I reboot, Win10 says that it has to temporarily create the
>   Paging File on C:.  So this is no advance.
>
> - Microsoft Support struggle with understanding the issue.  When they
>   do, they give useless advice.
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