To have the issue it helps to have the reading disk be a quite a bit faster than the receiving disk that way the reading disk can easily get ahead and fill up the write cache faster than the reading disk can process it (it backs up into the writecache). So USB3.0 3.5-7200rpm or an SSD will easily overrun a standard laptop 5900 rpm 2.5" hard disk. On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 7:51 PM Ed Greshko <ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 2020-04-01 08:46, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > On 3/31/20 5:42 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > >> On 2020-04-01 07:09, Sreyan Chakravarty wrote: > >>> I have just installed the latest version of Fedora Gnome on my HP laptop. I had to import a 50 GB OVA file from my USB HDD to my hard drive via USB 3.0. > >> > >> I don't often copy large files to/from USB. But figured I give it a go. I created a file of about 57GB with > >> random data. > >> > >> I then used cp to copy the file to/from a USB 3.0 SanDisk Extreme Go PRO. > >> > >> No noticeable slowdown. > >> > >> I suspect the only difference is that I use only SSD. > > > > Right. USB 3 and SSD is not going to be a good demonstration. Try a USB 2 drive to see what happens. > > I actually did use USB 2.0 first and switched to my recently added USB 3.0 port to match the OP. > > Even with USB 2.0 there was no slowdown or stability issues. The transfer just took longer. > > -- > The key to getting good answers is to ask good questions. > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
