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Provide multiple thumb-drives via RAID 0 / USB-hub better performance than a single thumb-drive? [duplicate]
Suppose I'd attach N flash-sticks to an USB-hub and configure them using soft-RAID level 0 [striping].
Is this configuration likely to provide better throughput than a single flash-stick?
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How can I pin point a USB file transfer bottleneck in Unix?
I'm experiencing very slow data transfer speeds over USB 2.0 on my nix box and was wondering how I can pin-point the cause of the problem.
I've looked into iotop and top but the cpu and mem figures ...
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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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