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    USB Pendrive transfer speeds and OS

    Is it possible that your USB transfer times can vary depending on the OS you are running?

    I have a 4gb Kington Data traveller, the fastest transfer time I got was about 7mb/s when I used Vista. However under Ubuntu I can get 11mb/s. On the same PC.

    This is when transferring the same type and size of files aswell! (large .avi files 200+mb)

    Ubuntu also seems to be able to import my camera photos of the memory card much faster aswell.

    Anyone noticed a difference or am I going mad.
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    Re: USB Pendrive transfer speeds and OS

    It can vary between OS, I don't know that much about the technical side of it though. Depends on how the OS is programmed to handle file transfers and the overheads included.

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