[TriLUG] SOLVED Re: booting off usbstick

[David Brain via TriLUG]

I don't think usb sticks are really intended to be that fast, looking here,
https://usb.userbenchmark.com/) none of them are that quick, which
certainly alights with my experience or using them.  I don't think they're
really designed with being primary storage in mind.

A $20 SSD is most likely going to give massively better performance.

David.

On Fri, Jul 24, 2020, 8:53 AM Matt Flyer via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> Per the USB spec, a USB2.0 port / device should have a transfer speed
> of 480 Mbps, so it should be plenty fast.  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. The rule of thumb is to keep 25-30%
> free capacity. I can't remember if it also slows down and takes longer
> to erase as it gets older and closer to it's cycle limit because it's
> been so long since that sort of thing has been an issue.
>
> On Thu, 2020-07-23 at 21:16 +0000, Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG wrote:
> >
> > I found that I got near enough to the same speed by putting a usb3
> > stick into
> > the usb2 port on the front panel. It seems that the slow part is
> > reading and
> > writing to the usb stick and not the usb2 interface.
> >
> > Joe
>
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