[TriLUG] SOLVED Re: booting off usbstick

[Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG]

On Fri, 24 Jul 2020, Matt Flyer wrote:

> Per the USB spec, a USB2.0 port / device should have a transfer speed
> of 480 Mbps, so it should be plenty fast.

good to know. I don't keep track of these things. I do know that the usb3 stick 
in the usb2 port is plenty fast for me.

>  USB3, if I recall was designed to be able to stream blue ray video and is 
> specified at 5 or 10 Gbps depending on whether it is 3.0 or 3.1.
>
> If your memstick is slow to write, it could be that it's too full and doesn't 
> have enough free pages.

someone in the know said that my slow lexar usb2 sticks have no DRAM, so writing 
it painfully slow.

> The rule of thumb is to keep 25-30% free capacity.

didn't know that either. In this case it isn't a problem.

Thanks Joe
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