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First of all, my apologies: I've seen a tons of forums related to this topic, but nowhere did I see a solution to this problem.

I've switched to Linux only recently and my biggest issue about it is the PC to USB transfer speed. While transferring the files, I see the bar getting stuck at random times and then filling up again after some time. This reflects on speed.

So, any suggestion?

Fabby
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Now that you mention it: No one ever asked what the solution to the slow USB speed is. Everyone just wants to know why...

Solution:

Don't buy don't buy SLC USB sticks, buy MLC ones!

Why?

SLC USB sticks are cheap and you get what you pay for: MLC ones are 2-8 times faster (depending on the technology of your original SLC), last 2-8 times longer (again: compared you your Crap Inc Ⓡ Mega! Hyper! USB stick) However, they're 2-3 times more expensive and are generally not on stock if you walk into any random corner-store.

Basically: these are mini-SSD drives in a USB form factor.

Fabby
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  • And as you're a reputation 1 user: don't forget to click the grey check-mark under the "0" at the left of this text, therefore "accepting" the answer, which is better then saying "thank you" as both of our reputations will go up! ;-) – Fabby Jan 10 '15 at 12:22
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    Well, ok, I can accept this answer, but still, it bothers me that on Windows, with the same flash drive, i got 2 times the speed than on Linux.

    Nevertheless, thank you for your time :)

     – Nemanja Ritan Jan 10 '15 at 13:50
  • Aha! That's new information! :-) I upvoted your question, so you should have a bit more rep now too! What's the format of that particular USB stick? – Fabby Jan 10 '15 at 13:53
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    Thank you! :) The filesystem is fat32. I messed a bit with fstab:

    USB flash drive

    /dev/sdc1 /mnt/sdc1 vfat user,async,noauto 0 0

    I tried using async instead of flush, and I'm getting pretty good results to, average write speed to Kingston Data Traveler 16GB is 11MB/s, which I think is pretty good :)

    Do you have any other suggestions?

     – Nemanja Ritan Jan 10 '15 at 15:54
  • Not bad... If you reformat it regularly, nothing to add! ;) Success! – Fabby Jan 10 '15 at 15:57
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    Will do, thank you for your time and compliments! :) – Nemanja Ritan Jan 10 '15 at 15:58
  • I should by one of this things :) – A.B. Aug 21 '15 at 20:15