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Counter-intuitive performance issue using Samsung T5 SSD on M2 pro Macmini
M2pro 16gb Mac Mini, OSX 13.2.1
BenQ PD32220u Monitor (with USB interfaces)
Samsung T5 SSD 2TB (USB 3.1 gen2)
I've recently upgraded my workstation, have been using a T5 External drive for some time ...
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Copying speed to external SSD via USB with 500kB/sec instead of 500 MB/sec
I'm trying to copy a large amount of data (40GB) to an external SSD. The SSD is the following:
SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD 2 TB V2 - USB-C 3.2 Gen2
According to its manufacturer (SanDisk) it can ...
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Slow performance on Windows to Go installation
I Windows 10 installed on an external SSD that is connected to a USB 3.2 Gen 1 port, which I guess used to be called USB 3.0 and has an advertised speed of 5 Gb/s. The SSD has a speed of 20 Gb/s.
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Raspberry Pi 4 write speed in kb/s using USB-3 SSD?
TLDR; USB-3 SSD on Raspberry Pi 4 has read speeds of 322KiB/s and write of 108KiB/s, expecting MB/s at least...
I've gone through every forum on this one, using this test:
sudo fio --randrepeat=1 --...
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Slower Internet speeds with USB ethernet adapter than card from motherboard
I'm having very weird performance issue with downloading files.
Networking:
Huawei HG8240H router ( ISP ) - 1 Gbps FO link
TP-Link Archer C6 AC1200 connected to that Huawei router with 1 Gbps
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Is there a performance difference between SD MicroSD adaptor vs USB MicroSD adaptor?
Introduction
I have a microSD card with data that I'm trying to connect to my computer. My computer has slots for connecting to a USB or an SD-card, but not microSD. (example below)
However, I have ...
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USB 3 write speed fluctuates in Windows 10
I am using a 1TB SSD drive for file transfer between two Windows 10 computers that i connect using a USB 3 adapter and ports.
I copy files from System A to the drive and then from the drive onto ...
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Bring worn out (?) USB stick back to old performance
I've got a USB stick (SanDisk Cruzer Facet 64G) which seems to be worn out. I had filled it to the brim with a lot of small-ish files (500kB each), which went well, no performance issues; and when I ...
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HDD or USB stick for keeping VirtualBox disk images for efficiency and durability?
I recently replaced a storage device and copied all my VirtalBox VMs to a large USB stick. The USB stick advertizes IO performance so I thought VMs may run efficiently out of it, but a few minutes ...
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How to prevent Windows 10 and/or my computer from going completely crippled while utilizing file copying over USB?
I have a monster PC running Windows 10. There are zero known hardware issues, and it's managed by me, a poweruser. There are no weird things slowing it down. It runs at expected speed normally.
It is ...
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Do computers' USB ports provide the USB version's full transfer speed?
I have a HP Omen 15-dc1056nf gaming laptop, which I game on extensively. Its USB ports are:
1 USB 3.1 Gen 2 Type-C with Thunderbolt 3 (40 Gb/s signaling rate, DisplayPort™ 1.4, HP Sleep and Charge)
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Why does transferring files to a USB stick grind my computer to a halt?
I'm currently syncing a bunch of files to a USB stick.
Regardless of what USB version it uses, and regardless of my motherboard's ability to transfer USB data, why does it cause my entire computer to ...
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Can USB 3.1 improve USB 3.0 upstream performance?
My monitor gives two USB 3.0 ports and two USB 2.0 ports via a single USB 3.0 upstream port. will connecting my display to a USB 3.1 improve the overall performance of USB ports provided on the ...
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Arch Linux performance
I have Arch Linux installed on a USB 3.0 flash drive - not Live USB, but persistent installation. I have been using this install for a half a year without any issues on an Acer R 15 (i7 CPU, 12 GB RAM)...
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Why is my Ubuntu computer slow when a Logitech C920 USB camera is attached?
I have a USB Webcam (Logitech C920), which (when attached) sometimes slows down my whole computer to less than 10% of the regular speed.
I'm not only talking about boot times; which could be explained ...
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Slow speeds (40mb/s) from Crucial X6 on USB 3 port?
I'm running an Asus b350m TUF board, and I just got hold of a Crucial X6 USB SSD, and when I ran crystaldiskmark on it, the read and write speeds were around 40-44mb/s, nothing higher. Random 4k ...
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How do I monitor the performance of USB peripherals on Windows 10?
I'm trying to monitor the performance of a USB DVD player/writer on Windows 10. I'm mainly interested in basic metrics like bytes read and written per second and latency. So far I'm not finding any ...
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Will an SSD external drive be faster than an HDD external drive on USB 3.0?
I have a Retina MacBook Pro Mid-2014 with a 256GB drive, which is small for my needs so I need to use an external Hard Drive.
I'm using a WD 4TB My Passport where I store a lot of pictures and videos, ...
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Copy To USB 3 Drive Start With Highest Speed But Then Significantly Decreases
I have large files that I need to copy to my USB 3.0 external drive. It's a HDD with enclosure.
The problem is the copy speed. When the copy start it start at 110+ MBps, but after few seconds it goes ...
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Does USB version speed matter for input devices?
We know that USB v1 - v2 -v3 has different features and signal/transfer speed, I understand that storage devices will most likely benefit from the speed feature, but does the speed affect input ...
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Evaluating hdd speed: data transfer rate vs internal data rate
I have two Seagate disks a 2T st2000lm007 (2.5) and a 3T ST3000DM008 (3.5). I have a choice between mounting one as a USB 3.0 external and the other as an internal.
Is there an advantage either way? ...
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Actual sequential writing speed to USB 3.1 SSD far below benchmark data
I have a single 5.5GB file on a slow internal SATA-3 magnetic HDD. Windows 10 claims that disk is only "1%" fragmented. The sequential read performance is around 95 MB per second according to crystal ...
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Extremely slow speeds when tethering via usb
I finished building my new gaming PC today. Since my phone's (Galaxy S9) internet is usually much faster than my house's internet, I tethered it to my new computer. However, I'm experiencing much, ...
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Is there a USB file copy protocol that makes zip file copy faster?
I apologise that I cannot provide any source other than mentioning a quote from my friend. (This is almost a question for skeptics.stackexchange) He said there is a protocol because of which copying a ...
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Slow transfer speeds between one HDD and USB3 external drive
I'm transferring a handful of files from an internal HDD to an external HDD over USB3.0, but find that I'm getting nowhere near USB3 speeds.
The drive is definitely USB3 (Seagate STEB6000403) and ...
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USB-to-PS/2 adapter
I have a follow up questions from a Q&A I was reading-up, PS/2 vs. USB keyboards: performance and energy consumption.
I have a USB-to-PS/2 adapter. I can attach it to a USB port on my computer ...
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How to increase RAM using a USB as RAM memory?
I'm using Ubuntu, a Linux distro.
I read some years ago about the possibility to increase the RAM by using a pen-drive USB as additional memory RAM.
I already googled that but I found only articles ...
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Will Compressing an Entire USB Flash Drive Actually Increase Performance? [duplicate]
As we know, USB flash drives are generally very slow in data transfer rates. USB 3 has significantly increased the rates data transfers, but it's still much slower than even traditional mechanical ...
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What is the performance penalty of chaining USB hubs?
USB hubs with lots of ports (7 or 10) often consist of chained 4-port hubs. I wonder how good the performance of the various ports of those hubs is.
Specifically I'm thinking about mass storage ...
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Windows 10 USB bottlenecking
I have a 128gb MacBook Pro and I wanted to run Windows for gaming. Because I have 128gb (and Boot Camp requires 50gb of internal hard drive space), I decided to run Windows from external USB. It boots ...
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USB 3.0 External HDD suddently very slow and random disconnects
I have an external WD 3TB 3.0 USB HDD. I used to have a lot of movies and series stored on it. Recently I tried to clean up what I had on it, and in the process I managed to transfer about 1 TB of ...
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Extremely slow write to USB 2.0, EXT4, from Linux Mint [closed]
When used first time, write to USB gave only 200Kb/sec speed o.O Like 3 hours for 300MB copy.
I formatted the USB as EXT4, and tried again, the speed went up to 1.6MB/sec, but then quickly fell down ...
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Transferring large file to/from USB drive causes system to hang until transfer is done
I have a box running Ubuntu 16.04 server. It has an internal SATA hard drive with the OS on it, and an attached USB 3 hard drive which I use for storage of large/long term files. A lot of times, this ...
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EXTREMELY slow transfer speed
I'm getting VERY slow transfer speeds with 3 different usb flash drives on different computers.
This are the aspects I consider relevant:
USB 3.0 driver is installed
USB 3.0 is enabled from BIOS
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Extremely slow speed when writing to USB FAT32 drive in Linux
I'm trying to copy around 4GB of files onto a USB 3.0 drive formatted with FAT32. The speed is ridiculously slow - 200 kBytes/sec. Writing data directly with dd is okay at about 25-30 MBytes/sec, and ...
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Speeding up USB 3.0 on my machine, Vantec USB3.1 to PCI card is slower than MOBO ports?
So I read an article on Tom's Hardware after I was tired of waiting for some backups to complete faster. Admittedly I did not understand parts of the article but what I took away from it is that I ...
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Why does certain files and collection of files take so long to copy?
I was copying the windows "users" folder for a friend of mine and I noticed that the 6.5GB file took unusually long to copy. The transfer rate never exceeded 5Mb/s. Also, I noticed there was an ...
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NAS via HDD connected to PC or HDD connected to the router
Hardware I am working with
Netgear Nighthawk AC1900 (R7000) (USB 3.0; running stock firmware, but can run Tomato if needed)
Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex Desk 2 TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive (MPN: ...
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Does ASRock XFast USB actually improve file transfer?
Since I bought my computer from a friend, I have been using the ASRock XFast USB software. It came with the ASRock motherboard (that is, it's not something that was found on the internet and installed ...
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After plugging in a USB device, Win7 severely slows. What causes this and how could it be fixed?
This is the second PC undergoing this condition, both running Win7. On PC1 a Logitech device was connected through USB before installing it's branded driver (allowing windows to auto-install it), and ...
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slow transfer of data from disk to disk
I'm copying about 4TB of data from one hdd to another and noticing abysmal speeds.
I have two external SATA 3 hdds plugged into USB 3.0 docks and connected to USB3.0 ports on Macbook Pro. MBP was ...
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USB Keyboard and Mouse slow to activate using docking station for Lenovo T430
I just recently upgraded to a T430. Happy with the laptop but one thing I find annoying is that when I use it through the docking station - it takes several minutes ie 3-5 for the USB keyboard and ...
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USB Flash drive too slow
I've tried like 10 USB flash drives, and they are all slow :(
External USB hard-drives are much faster. For example transfer speeds on the WD passport are like 20 MB/sec compared to like 2 MB/sec on ...
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Clean install vs disk image
Once a year I am making a clean install on windows, in order to keep my system fast. After posting a question on making a bootable windows usb with exe programs where I was adviced to make a disk ...
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USB 3.0 Flash Drive slower than USB 2.0
I have just bought a USB Stick (Flash Drive) from Philips. 32GB USB 3.0. I had some other problems with my USB 3.0 Installation but now this is resovled. My USB 3.0 hub is now a 7 Port USB 3.0 Metall ...
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going back and forth between a laptop and a desktop seamlessly on windows 8/7
I want to be able to use a desktop and a laptop and share applications and files.
What I was thinking of was an external enclosure (usb 3.0) with a SSD drive on which i install the operating system ...
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How does the performance of nano/pico wireless adapters vs. regular-sized USB/PCI-E adapters compare?
Wireless N adapters come in all shapes and sizes: some have 2 antennas; some have only 1, and some have no external antenna at all. I assume that those with at least one external antenna have better ...
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Why can a SD card be faster on an external USB reader rather than on a builtin SD reader?
I have a Sandisk SDHC 4GB Class 2 memory card, and I have benchmarked its reading speed with Palimpsest Disk Utility, under Linux and with my Acer Travelmate 5720G laptop.
These are the speeds when ...
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Transfering files over USB2.0 (500GB)
I am transferring 500GB of files from an internal (SATA) HDD to a external USB disk (2.5 inch, one of those that use the power line on USB to power themselves). As of now the rate at which it's ...
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How to measure actual USB3 port speed?
Not all USB3 ports are created equal.
I have a friend who develops embedded hardware that interfaces with USB chipsets. He told me that most USB chipsets that are slightly faster than USB2 (480 Mbit/...
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