Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261406AbVD3UOr (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:14:47 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261403AbVD3UOC (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:14:02 -0400 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:4414 "EHLO pd3mo2so.prod.shaw.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261407AbVD3UI0 (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Apr 2005 16:08:26 -0400 Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 14:08:19 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: Extremely poor umass transfer rates In-reply-to: <3YCkl-5lB-21@gated-at.bofh.it> To: linux-kernel Message-id: <4273E5B3.6040708@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-Accept-Language: en-us, en References: <3YjKy-72a-21@gated-at.bofh.it> <3YkGD-7NT-15@gated-at.bofh.it> <3Ylt2-8mA-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <3YlWb-px-35@gated-at.bofh.it> <3YCkl-5lB-21@gated-at.bofh.it> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 881 Lines: 20 J.A. Magallon wrote: > Je, je, you're dreaming. The limit on pendrives, flash mp3 players and so > on is the flash memory read/write speed. You are lucky if you get 1Mb/s. > So for a flash based device, dont ever worry about if it is USB 1.1 or 2.0. Lots of flash is much faster than that these days. On the Kingston USB 2.0 pen drive I have, there's a HUGE speed difference between USB 1.1 and 2.0. I'm not sure what the throughput is exactly under 2.0, but it's far faster than 1 MB/sec. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/