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How do I get better USB transfer speeds in (X)ubuntu?

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When I connect my USB 2.0 drive to Xubuntu and try to transfer large files, transfer speeds are good at first but drop after a few seconds to 1-2 Mib/s. From what I read, the fast transfer at the beginning is just until the cache is full, then the real USB transfer speed is used. In Windows, speed …

Error Output

[ 5237.580084] usb 1-4: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 6
[ 5237.714318] scsi4 : usb-storage 1-4:1.0
[ 5238.713909] scsi 4:0:0:0…

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The article Slow USB 2.0 mass storage transfer rate suggests that this might be a problem of the device getting mounted by default with the sync option : Do you have a "Devices" Icon on your Desktop? If so, open it. If not, try opening media:/ in ko…

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