[Novalug] USB transfer rates

Alex Smith (K4RNT) shadowhunter@gmail.com
Sun Mar 9 18:01:12 EDT 2014


Why are you insisting on external drives? The insides of the machine
should be fine. Dell does not use as much proprietary stuff anymore
like they did in the past.
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- Alex Smith
- Dulles Technology Corridor (Chantilly/Ashburn/Dulles), Virginia USA


On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Roy Wilson <roywilson1963@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   I've got a Wallyworld $300 Flavor of the Month computer with six USB 2.0
> ports on it running Knoppix 7.2.
>
>   I have 3 3tb external drives connected to it, loaded mostly with video
> files of about 350mb each.
>
>   On a clean boot files transfer between the drives at reasonable speeds -
> usually under a minute each.
>
>   About the only other programs that run on this machine are Chromium and
> VLC (it's basically a television server).
>
>   I'm using Dolphin as my file manager.
>
>   If the machine has been running for a while (an hour or so), those
> transfer speeds go to half an hour per file.  Even if I close every other
> program running (as I said, Chromium and VLC).
>
>   Only a hard boot lets me get back to reasonable transfer rates.
>
>   Anyone have a clue how to get the speed back without rebooting?
>
>
>
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