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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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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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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 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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How many megabytes per second may I expect from a gigabit USB 2.0 network card under linux?
I'm interested in the actual real-word throughput attainable with an external 1000BaseT USB 2.0 network card under Linux. I have been able to attain 90 megabytes per second on a PCI-E interface, but ...
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What's the fastest: eSATA over ExpressCard adapter, or over USB 2?
I am considering buying an ExpressCard-based eSATA controller to access an external hard disk (1TB). However, this hard disk is also already available using simple USB 2 cable. Is it worth to buy such ...
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