Make sure you are plugging directly into the MOBO connectors. Many cases include crappy USB one hubs which causes degraded performance.
2009/2/9 frantisek holop <min...@obiit.org>: > hmm, on Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 06:44:25PM +0100, Jesus Sanchez said that >> On windows, formated as FAT32, the copy of 1,2 GB took >> about 6 minutes, so it's about 3.41 MB/s, that's more than USB1.1 speed >> (I think) but in OpenBSD 4.4 I have 1.5 MB/s speed. I will attach dmesg >> as soon as possible. > > for many devices 1.5 MB/s is already USB2. e.g. my mp3 player. > > i am not familiar with the windows caching mechanism but it > might be finishing up the copying after the progress bar has > already finished. linux plays that ugly game. everything > is copied lightningly fast only to discover that umount takes > minutes until the caches is written out in the real world. > > have you clocked the openbsd transfer? it is not in your email > 6min windows vs ? min openbsd? > > -f > -- > golf is a good walk spoiled.