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

Alan Stern
2019-09-19T17:54:57Z

On Thu, 19 Sep 2019, Andrea Vai wrote:

> BTW, another question: Alan refers to the slow media as a "consumer-
> grade USB storage device". What could I do to identify and buy a "good
> media"? Are there any features to look for?

In general, USB flash drives should not be expected to work as well as
an actual disk drive connected over USB.

Alan Stern