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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.
I ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Is it worth to buy an external USB SSD drive for my laptop to increase performance?
I'm a programmer, and I use Eclipse for Java development. Recently I've installed an internal (SATA) SSD drive on my home machine, transferred Eclipse installation and project to it and noticed a ...
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