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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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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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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 port ...
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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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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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performance gain while running ubuntu from usb disk or running as virtual machine?

I have 64bit laptop, running windows 7 64 bit operating system with 7200 RPM Hard drive. I have Vmware installed on Windows 7, and I am using the Ubuntu 10.10 as virtual machine. Performance seems ...
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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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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 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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1 answer
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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. I ...
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Does a USB hub affect performance?

I have two devices I want maximum throughput and latency with (MIDI drums and MIDI keyboard for example.) Would connecting both to the same USB port via a hub effectively limit the maximum data ...
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1 answer
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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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7 answers
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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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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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