On 2007-01-05, <jdd@dodin.org> wrote:
Svend Tollak Munkejord wrote:
Hi,
I run Opensuse 10.2 on a Dell Precision M70 Laptop. I have noticed that there is a very large difference in the speed when copying files to or from an external USB harddisk (ReiserFS-formatted). I have tested the speed by copying a 1155 MB file:
Copy to USB-disk: 2.18 MB/s Copy from USB-disk: 25.5 MB/s
Is this normal? If not, what can I do to speed up the copying to the USB disk? (It would be nice if I could speed up my backups.)
Incidentally, my USB-disk also has a FAT partition. When copying to the FAT partition, the speed was 23.2 MB/s! How can this be? I wouldn't like to format the whole USB disk with FAT, because of file names and attributes, etc., so I hope there are other solutions.
Regards,
in kde, right click on the device and look for a tab with options, some are faster (but less secure, don't remove the usb device too fast)
Thanks for the tip. Using Konqueror, I unchecked the options "Synchronous" and "Acces time updates". That helped; now the copy-to speed is as fast as the copy-from speed. What do these options actually do? Are they not safe to use as long as I use the "safely remove" function before unplugging the USB disk? Regards, -- Svend Tollak Munkejord -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org