You are probably correct. I went back and checked the sizes of the directories and the number of files:<div><br></div><div>Slow transfer - 213,255 files, 3.5 Gb =&gt; ~16.4KB/file</div><div>Fast Transfer - 803 files, 1.8 GB =&gt; 2.24 MB/file</div>
<div><br></div><div>I guess I won&#39;t return the stick as defective...;)</div><div><br></div><div>Mark<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Adam McCullough <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ajmccul1@asu.edu">ajmccul1@asu.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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"><div><div class="h5">On 2 February 2012 08:21, Mark Phillips <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:mark@phillipsmarketing.biz" target="_blank">mark@phillipsmarketing.biz</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
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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