How old is the drive and how is it formatted? You’re gonna want ExFAT for the best performance with large files.
Try wiping the drive, creating a new GPT partition table and formatting with ExFAT. If that doesn’t improve performance, then it may just be the flash drive. I find that the drives that advertise their speeds tend to be faster than the drives that don’t, and I get the BEST performance from SSDs. I now have a pile of old flash drives that I no longer use because they are so slow.
Also, large flash drives (128GB, 256GB) tend to be a LOT faster than small ones. And as the drive nears it’s capacity, write speeds will start to slow down dramatically.
In this case it’s a 64GB datatraveler I bought a few years ago and I barely used.
This is not a new issue, since I started to use linux I always experienced this very slow transfers, at first I blamed my old PCs but now I in this same computer running windows all flash drives were much faster than this.
I tried to google for a solution, there are dozens of forum posts going back years, with as many solutions and workarounds, none of them seemed to be persistent.
that is one of the small ssds they were talking about, that is not a flash drive. i dont have much advice but hopefully that will help you look for answers.
edit: maybe not, that could just be the datatraveler max. there is quite a bit of specific information on datatravelers though.
Yes. Use faster USB drives. If your computer has USB3 ports, buy USB3-specific flash drives.
Better yet, skip flash drives altogether and get a compact USB SSD. They come is the same small sizes as a flash drive and are MUCH faster.
Both port and usb flash drive are usb3
How old is the drive and how is it formatted? You’re gonna want ExFAT for the best performance with large files.
Try wiping the drive, creating a new GPT partition table and formatting with ExFAT. If that doesn’t improve performance, then it may just be the flash drive. I find that the drives that advertise their speeds tend to be faster than the drives that don’t, and I get the BEST performance from SSDs. I now have a pile of old flash drives that I no longer use because they are so slow.
Also, large flash drives (128GB, 256GB) tend to be a LOT faster than small ones. And as the drive nears it’s capacity, write speeds will start to slow down dramatically.
In this case it’s a 64GB datatraveler I bought a few years ago and I barely used.
This is not a new issue, since I started to use linux I always experienced this very slow transfers, at first I blamed my old PCs but now I in this same computer running windows all flash drives were much faster than this.
I tried to google for a solution, there are dozens of forum posts going back years, with as many solutions and workarounds, none of them seemed to be persistent.
that is one of the small ssds they were talking about, that is not a flash drive. i dont have much advice but hopefully that will help you look for answers.
edit: maybe not, that could just be the datatraveler max. there is quite a bit of specific information on datatravelers though.