yesterday while backing up somethings to a drive of some sort that connects via USB my (mostly) linux computer I ran into something odd I'd wondered how many others experienced
I wanted to back up stuff like art, notes and what not- the kinds of things that'd be more or less impossible to replace and I've found backups are king, queen and arguably emperor: anyway: Transfer started ok at about 10-15MBS Then slowed to a a crawl. The kind of crawl that'd make a traffic light maker proud. Like from 10-15MBs down to about 1MB to about 64Bytes a second. This seemed...odd. A quick and dirty google showed that Ubuntu has a mixed history with USB drives. It's perplexing because just a week ago different thumb drive, the kinds you find on keychanes and medallions of varius kinds, it'd saw that drive and moved files full speed FWIW I was amused that for some reason I could upload some fi Sufficed to say I thought it'd be worthwhile asking how many others ran into that kind of issue. It also amused me I could backup some of those things to dropbox, and skydive in as much and sometimes less time than basically a disk to disk transfer.
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