From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BA2A0139337 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2021 15:29:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5AF46E08A8; Thu, 29 Jul 2021 15:29:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk (smtp.hosts.co.uk [85.233.160.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BD11EE0863 for ; Thu, 29 Jul 2021 15:29:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from host86-162-184-27.range86-162.btcentralplus.com ([86.162.184.27] helo=[192.168.1.64]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1m97y4-00055b-8r for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 29 Jul 2021 16:29:05 +0100 Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Is there a way to misconfigure USB ports in the kernel? To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <24510.38475.914653.374734@tux.speedport.ip> <24523.52343.49602.311308@tux.speedport.ip> <24675.23516.469155.831394@tux.local> <808599453.0ifERbkFSE@lenovo.localdomain> <24834.29871.243686.775730@tux.local> From: Wols Lists X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 Message-ID: <6102D2CB.7040600@youngman.org.uk> Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2021 17:09:47 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <24834.29871.243686.775730@tux.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f68df555-f912-4a87-a132-fac06b53846c X-Archives-Hash: a14f31af389e1623a74368c27012141b On 29/07/21 10:28, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > I just directly formatted one of my two Philips 128G USB 3.0 sticks with > "mkntfs" and the write performance without VeraCrypt did not improve. > Further searching the web I found that vendors were rarely specifying > the writing speeds of their USB sticks at all, and if they did, there > was a tendency to exaggerate. See for instance Could this be the 512B / 4K sector size problem? If performance is horrible, it could well be a stick / partition mismatch. I never investigated, but if the stick is faking a 512B sector size, so the partition is using 4K blocks aligned on sector 1, it will kill write speed, and in time will kill the stick, too! Cheers, Wol