Copy to USB devices slow and problematic

[moonmopus]

i share your pain. system is a gigabyte x58 ud3r rev2 with an i7950 and 12 gb ram running linux mint 12 64 bit. when copying multimedia files from one of my internal drives to an 8 gb thumb drive, it creeps to a crawl - literally 1/10th or 1/20th of the transfer speed it started out at. for what it's worth, i initially tried reformatting the thumb drive (as a noob, i assumed that could well have had something to do with it). i'm nevertheless surprised that there haven't been more discussions of this problem.i hope this gets resolved because i don't see myself returning to windows.

[J@n]

Hi moonmopus,

I am glad at least this thread is getting some attention It warms the heart to know I am not alone.

I too do not wish to return to Windows (it does have it's strong points but I prefer Linux) and am appearantly willing to "suffer" the copying problem.

Since there seems to be no solution I have my hopes on the next release.

Greetz,

J@n

[soulrain]

By trying from the command line with the same results, it is obvious that the problem does not lie with Nautilus. I have no further suggestions, hope this gets fixed by a system update.

I thank you too.

At least I learned all the different commands of how to relocate a file ^-^

None of them worked for me either.

Besides that I like linux mint so I really do not feel like switching to another distro which seems to be the only option.

[gp73]

Wow, this sucks. I too am having the same problem with mint 9x64. How is it that such basic, basic functions can be handled so badly? Ubuntu now sucks and it seems that Mint is no better. Taking over 2 hours to transfer 7.3gigs to a 8gig stick (fat32). USB2 not USB1. What is up? Will we ever have a OS that just works? Sh%^ I'm about to go buy Win 7 or start beta testing Win8 to find a system that can do BASIC FUNCTIONS, IE: open files, manipulate them and move and transfer to different hard drives.
TRANSFERRING AT A BLAZING SPEED OF 930kb/SEC. GOOD JOB PROGRAMMERS!

[J@n]

:cry: Wow, this sucks. I too am having the same problem with mint 9x64. How is it that such basic, basic functions can be handled so badly? Ubuntu now sucks and it seems that Mint is no better. Taking over 2 hours to transfer 7.3gigs to a 8gig stick (fat32). USB2 not USB1. What is up? Will we ever have a OS that just works? Sh%^ I'm about to go buy Win 7 or start beta testing Win8 to find a system that can do BASIC FUNCTIONS, IE: open files, manipulate them and move and transfer to different hard drives.
TRANSFERRING AT A BLAZING SPEED OF 930kb/SEC. GOOD JOB PROGRAMMERS!

Hi gp73,

I can understand your anger and frustration but I am afraid your post will not stimulate the developers to speed up the creation of a solution.

And before you go out buying/testing Windows you might want to take a look at OpenSuse (that distro copies at blazing speeds on my machine )

Greetz,

J@n

[grizwald]

I am having the same problem transferring files to USB memory sticks. When using Mint 11 the transfer speed was not so too bad. Since upgrading to Mint 13 [Cinnamon] the transfer speed to the same USB memory stick is pathetic. Starts off like a rocket, then slows down to a crawl with the message ' 0 seconds remaining' evident for up to a minute in some cases. Clearly it isn't the fault of the USB stick being the same one as used earlier and the same format type so the most likely culprit being the program. I might point out that transferring to USB external drives is just as fast as before - WITHOUT the lengthy '0 seconds remaining' message too. Only when using USB memory sticks is when this problem arises.

A fix would be excellent, does anyone know of one?

G.

Update...
11.2 GB data took 48 minutes to complete.

[J@n]

Hi Grizwald,

Welcome to the club.

AFAIK it should be fixed with kernel 3.3. Correct me if I am wrong.

Let's wait and see.

Other than that Mint rocks

Greetz,

J@n

[grizwald]

Thanks J@n, Good to know that something is in hand to fix it.

Greetz 2,

Griz.

[grizwald]

Problem persists with Mint 14 .
Standing joke amongst my Mint friends with the exceedingly large number of "Zero Seconds" at the end of any file copy to a USB memory stick.
Seems OK to a USB Hard Drive though. All very strange...

G.

[Gid]

I'm getting the same problem running Debian Edition with the latest update pack. In fact, the final "zero seconds" of a 144 MB file is going on its third minute or so right now. I am using a USB multi-card reader (mounted pass-through in the 3.5" bay ) with an SD card inserted.

I'm running 16 GB RAM, so it's not a memory issue--but I did find this helpful resource pertaining to an issue possibly related (thought probably not).

EDIT: I've also found that things get progressively slower at the 1.2 GB mark with larger files, eventually hanging at "zero seconds" for quite longer than with smaller files.

[Michael42]

Here is an obscure solution I found a year or so ago that seems to help me. It helps me get between 20 and 10 MB/sec copies between Ubuntu and Mint 14.1 Cinnamon and USB sticks. It also helps with faster portable drive speeds as well.

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sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

Insert

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pci=routeirq elevator=as

into the GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT like so:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="pci=routeirq elevator=as quiet splash"

save. then run
update-grub
reboot system. Let me know if it helps you too. I'd also like to know from experts if there are any drawbacks to this solution, as I haven't seen any.

Michael

[reverseinverse]

I have encountered this issue a lot (I'm running Mint 14 64-bit Cinnamon)... I believe that when the copy dialog enters this state, the copy operation has actually been completed... When I click cancel on the dialog, the copy target is the same size as the source... Can someone confirm that this is the case for them, or even better, that it's not...

[butler360]

Is this perhaps the issue being discussed here?

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2033090

[Gid]

That sounds exactly like it! Thanks for sharing.

Hmm... Now I'm torn. I didn't realize the long delay resulted in a significant decrease in write operations.

[Rayeta76]

Hi all;

Someone with LMDE or another version of Mint, do you spend files to USB pendrive to over 3Mb / s?

I have made ​​many tests and looked configurations, and I have put in my Pc USB 1.0, USB 2.0 and USB 3.0 and their velocity, the result below:

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javier@lmde:~$ sudo lsusb -t
/:  Bus 07.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=uhci_hcd/2p, 12M
/:  Bus 06.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=uhci_hcd/2p, 12M
/:  Bus 05.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=uhci_hcd/2p, 12M
/:  Bus 04.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/2p, 5000M
/:  Bus 03.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/2p, 480M
/:  Bus 02.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=uhci_hcd/2p, 12M
/:  Bus 01.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=ehci_hcd/8p, 480M
    |__ Port 2: Dev 5, If 0, Class=stor., Driver=usb-storage, 480M
    |__ Port 4: Dev 2, If 0, Class=stor., Driver=usb-storage, 480M
javier@lmde:~$


As you see in theory the speed of 480Mb / s at most 1 Gb so theoretically would be 2 seconds, do not want that because it is impossible that I later peroi more than 5 minutes to copy a movie I think 1.4 Gb excessive.

But none of my USB ports're able to overcome the 3mb / s ie to spend 5 gb'm over 20 minutes.