I also suffer from this bug. The transfer speed seems to start high and then falls to kb/s after a short while, see below. This happens with nautilus, dd, and rsync, etc.
$ rsync -aP * /media/usbmedibig --stats sending incremental file list file1 367,481,854 100% 10.67MB/s 0:00:32 (xfr#1, to-chk=14/15) file2 367,362,570 100% 2.18MB/s 0:02:40 (xfr#2, to-chk=13/15) file3 367,235,908 100% 1.35MB/s 0:04:19 (xfr#3, to-chk=12/15) file4 125,108,224 33% 551.88kB/s 0:07:20 ^C -- file transfers on USB disk are very slow https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/197762 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs