USB thumb stick = slow

SLP · 02-16-2006, 10:52 AM

I put files on Thumb Stick to transfer to other computers

When i put large file sizes(30MB-100MB) in thumb stick it transfers very slow (10KB-20KB/sec)

can I make the transfer speed faster?

okmyx · 02-16-2006, 11:22 AM

Details...Details....

Is this happening on every computer you plug it into?
Are these computers old spec with slow bus speeds or slow hard drives?
Is the thumb drive a usb2 device and your plugging it into a usb1 socket?
What OSs are you running on these other machines (are they all Suse 10.0 as in your profile)?
What command did you use to mount the device?

RedShirt · 02-16-2006, 11:29 AM

If you mean here within SuSE, your USB2 speeds are not working right at all, this is a VERY common issue. There are dozens of threads here in this very forum with answers like these:

unmount ... in options set to mount without sync. Then mount. It should work. Be aware you then have to unmount manually before removing thumb drive.

also...https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=105871 known issue.

SLP · 02-16-2006, 11:32 AM

I have a dual boot on 1 computer (SuSe 10.0 & Windows XP)

on SuSe speed is 10KB-20KB/sec

on XP speed is 150KB-160KB/sec

The other computers are XP and speed is also 150KB-160KB/sec

so I'm guessing its SuSE and I don't use command line (just copy/cut file and paste on thumb stick)

broch · 02-16-2006, 12:58 PM

except known bug in SuSE, this might be caused by your kernel. Try to upgrade, or even get SuSE HEAD 2.6.16.x
Currently I am using 2.6.15 and on average speed is around 280KB/s (Imation ThumbDrive USB2) when transferring ~22MB file. Unless, there is some sort of limit size after which transfer degrades fast, I don't think that I will have your problem
Finally, it might be your hardware