I&#39;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.<div><br></div><div>It isn&#39;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.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 February 2012 08:21, Mark Phillips <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mark@phillipsmarketing.biz">mark@phillipsmarketing.biz</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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?<div>

<br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Mark</div>
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