On 10/30/18 7:50 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: > On 10/30/18 6:18 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: >> On 10/31/18 6:45 AM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> FC28, x86 >>> Xfce 4.12 >>> >>> I am trying to copy he new Xfce Live ISO (1.4 GB) over >>> to a Samsung usb 3.1 stick. It is taking FOREVER. And >>> this is typical. >>> >>> Is your usb also slow by any chance? >> >> Nope.... >> >> [egreshko@meimei ~]$ uname -r >> 4.18.16-200.fc28.x86_64 >> [egreshko@meimei ~]$ time cp Fedora-Xfce-Live-x86_64-29-20181029.1.iso >> /run/media/egreshko/0E3723CF5E376877/ >> >> real 0m50.392s >> user 0m0.030s >> sys 0m4.014s >> >> > > mumble, mumble
As several people have mentioned, you can only write to a USB stick "n" times. As the drive gets used more and more, writes will get slower and slower as the drive has to find "fresh" locations to write to. USB sticks are NOT rotating magnetic media or even SSD, so you really can't expect similar speeds. Don't think of USB sticks as hard drives, more like CD-RWL (CD, read-write limited). There are a number of motherboards out there where the firmware can force a USB3 port (normally using the xhci mechanism) to use the slower ehci mechanism, thereby negating the USB3 speed. You might check your BIOS/UEFI settings to see if that's the case. Also verify that the USB stick you're futzing with is, indeed, USB3 compliant and that all OTHER devices using that port are USB3. The port will slow down to accommodate the slowest device on it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ri...@alldigital.com - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - I don't suffer from insanity...I enjoy every minute of it! - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
