When I do something like:
dd if='fedora.iso' of=/dev/sdb status=progress
I only get around 6 megabytes per second on a USB 2 Sandisk Cruzer
Blade flashdrive (store bought, not fleabay) plugged directly into a
motherboard's USB 3 port - one that's not sharing its host with any
other ports in use.
Surely it should be going a lot faster?
...
AFAIK, flashdrives operates the same as ssd's.
while SSD's and pricey flashdrive (e.g. Sandisk Extreme) support the trim command to
erase occupied space the sheaper flashdrives do not support trim, what means they get
slower over time.
deleted contents still remains on that flashdrives what means writing new data leads to an
erase/write cycle.
*I* long (not quick) format those slow flashdrives under windows.
- I currently don't know if the gnome disk has an equivalent for "long
format", I guess it's the "fill with zero's thing" -