Comment on Why Are Micro Center Flash Drives So Slow?
Lexam@lemmy.world 1 week ago
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.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 week 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
ddandImpression) 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) 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.