Re: Slow I/O on USB media after commit f664a3cc17b7d0a2bc3b3ab96181e1029b0ec0e6

Greg KH
2019-09-20T07:44:43Z

On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 09:25:17AM +0200, Andrea Vai wrote:
> Il giorno gio, 19/09/2019 alle 13.54 -0400, Alan Stern ha scritto:
> >
> > In general, USB flash drives should not be expected to work as well
> > as
> > an actual disk drive connected over USB.
>
> Ok, so I think I'll buy some different hardware. Would an SSD drive
> (connected over USB) behave like a flash drive or like an "actual disk
> drive" from this point of view?

It all depends on the drive. Some are a lot better than others, and
it's almost impossible to tell until you buy the thing and try it out :(