Question about USB R/W Speed

[Adam McCullough]

I'm willing to bet that the 1.5GB of files were a lot larger and less
numerous than the 8 GB of files you moved previously.

It isn't Windows, it has to do with how file systems work. Moving a million
1 kb files is going to take a lot more time than moving a tarball of the
same files -- even if they are the same size, bit for bit.

On 2 February 2012 08:21, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:

> I bought a new HP 32 GB USB stick. I plugged it into my Debian laptop to
> make a quick back up of a large directory (~8 GB, lots of little files),
> and it took overnight to transfer the files. Gnome reported that the
> transfer speed was around 400 - 500 KB/sec. I then plugged the same stick
> into the same port on my laptop, but transferred files (~1.5 GB lots of
> little files) from Windows 7 running in VMPlayer, and got a transfer speed
> of 4-5 MB/sec - 10 time faster! I checked the specs on the device, and HP
> says it should r/w files at about 4-5 MB/sec. Is there some magic in
> windows that makes USB sticks faster?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
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