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yop
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dude, USB speed matters !

#1 Post by yop »

I run a usb-live-MX from a fast USB3 stick as well as a class 10 SD card via USB3 adapter.

But class 10 is pretty slow there. Fastest :number1: and most fun is (non-SD) USB3-stick with 32 GB so you can easily remaster. Does make quite a difference :exclamation:

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Re: dude, USB speed matters !

#2 Post by m_pav »

Too true. I've had 125MBPS write speed on a new ADATA 32GB USB 3.0 drive witnessed by 3 of my students when the maximum write speed is supposed to be 90MBPS. I had formatted it as ext4 and of course connected to a Linux machine. The best speed Windows could manage on an identical stuck using NTFS in the same machine was less than 80MBPS. Goes to say a lot about filesystem efficiencies.

I now use only USB 3.0 drives because even the El cheapo drives out perform USB 2.0 speeds.
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Re: dude, USB speed matters !

#3 Post by Jerry3904 »

I was amazed a year ago when I bought my first USB 3.0 stick, also with 32 GB. Plugged into a 3.0 port it makes a huge difference.
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Re: dude, USB speed matters !

#4 Post by yop »

to be perfectly honest, I used 2 class 10 SD cards. The latest Sandisk SD I bought 1 week ago was actually significantly faster than another SD class 10 which was like 1 year old. Maybe the older card was not really class 10.

my point: real fast class 10 SD cards are rather close to native USB 3.0 sticks ("thumbdrives"). But there are some :turtle: "slow class 10 SD cards" :snail: out there, imho.

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Re: dude, USB speed matters !

#5 Post by dolphin_oracle »

+1 for for USB 3.0 sticks. I run MX completely off a 128 gb USB 3 stick on the lenovo. The live MX loads faster than the installed MX, but not as fast as the installed antiX (real cheap SSD in that machine).
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Re: dude, USB speed matters !

#6 Post by timkb4cq »

yop wrote:to be perfectly honest, I used 2 class 10 SD cards. The latest Sandisk SD I bought 1 week ago was actually significantly faster than another SD class 10 which was like 1 year old. Maybe the older card was not really class 10.
Class 10 sd cards have to support 10MB/s transfers. But many new class 10 cards support 80 MB/s. Your older sd card is probably meets the class 10 standard - it's just that the new cards massively exceed it.
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