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Why Are Micro Center Flash Drives So Slow? (hackaday.com)
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[–] Lexam@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'll be your fanboy for the day. I blame Windows for the slow down. If I move a file to or from a flash drive on windows the transfer will slow down to kilobits. This does not happen to me on Linux.

[–] chameleon@fedia.io 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Windows prefers to deactivate or minimize the write cache on removable devices, most of the common Linux distros generally don't make such changes. Microsoft has a very good reason for that default: not a lot of people actually use the "safely remove hardware" option and if the cache is enabled, using and waiting for that is a hard requirement for the data to have actually made its way onto the drive.

[–] morphballganon@mtgzone.com 0 points 4 days ago

not a lot of people actually use the "safely remove hardware" option

Capitulating to the lowest common denominator, what else is new

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I haven't tested the drive in question (no Microcenter near me), but I just replaced a cheap drive (from BestBuy) because it took almost an hour to write a 16GB Linux ISO (openSUSE Aeon in this case) on Linux (tried both dd and Impression) and the ISO didn't actually work. I've used smaller ISOs in the past (DVD-size) and those worked, but were pretty slow (took several minutes to write).

So I got a different drive (Sandisk Ultra Go or something, also from BestBuy for $15 or so) and writing took a couple minutes or so, writing at 100+ MB/s, and the ISO worked completely fine. Same OS, same tools, different drive.

It very much depends on the drive.