{"id":2268,"date":"2005-09-22T06:47:23","date_gmt":"2005-09-22T10:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=2268"},"modified":"2005-09-22T06:47:23","modified_gmt":"2005-09-22T10:47:23","slug":"worlds-slowest-usb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/09\/22\/worlds-slowest-usb\/","title":{"rendered":"world&#8217;s slowest USB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I tried copying about 180MB of files from my old Thinkpad onto a USB key using the mini-ITX box last night. It&#8217;s supposed to have USB 2.0 High Speed, but it certainly hasn&#8217;t; it took several hours. It managed a little over 5 Kbytes\/s on a single file.<\/p>\n<p>By comparison, the iBook moved the same amount of data from the key to the desktop in under four minutes. That&#8217;s more like it.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what could make the mini-ITX box so slow? As far as I can tell, there are no USB1.1 devices on the bus. Unless the device was mounted &#8216;sync&#8217; (where every write isn&#8217;t buffered, but immediately written to the USB key), it&#8217;s a mystery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I tried copying about 180MB of files from my old Thinkpad onto a USB key using the mini-ITX box last night. It&#8217;s supposed to have USB 2.0 High Speed, but it certainly hasn&#8217;t; it took several hours. It managed a little over 5 Kbytes\/s on a single file. By comparison, the iBook moved the same [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[358,795,1045,172,1113,650,1031,166,365,1043,656,229],"class_list":["post-2268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-book","tag-bus","tag-copy","tag-ibook","tag-ice","tag-ink","tag-low","tag-old","tag-red","tag-slow","tag-thinkpad","tag-usb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-AA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}