r/computers • • 13h ago

Discussion A wave of data transfer 🤣

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The peak and trough is exactly the same 😭 on a flash drive marketed as a usb 3.0 🤡

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u/Octoomy Arch Linux 13h ago

there is limitations due to NAND and certain operations. You're also using the normal windows copier, which is woefully slow. Its kinda sad that I have to say that its better to use terracopy in comparison.

Anyways, there could be several things making your transfer slow, the drive getting hot, the drive's cache being filled up... or just a bad drive in general. What USB drive did you get? My ventoy drive is a Sandisk SDC274, its a great little thing, usually transferring over 150-250 MB/s for me, until it gets very hot and... yeah (I ended up just... slapping a small heatsink on it for a bit, made that 5 minute window to a 8-9 minute one). But hey still 4-5 minutes of higher transfer speeds!

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u/Mean_Environment6657 13h ago

Drive couldn't get hot for a 1.5gb file bru did u even look at all the other stuff before writing this? Mine's a pretty cheap SanDisk 32G cz48 or something... Anyway I'm already satisfied with the performance of it lol I mean what can I even expect for 650 inr lol

But I would definitely look into that terracopy u mentioned

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u/Octoomy Arch Linux 11h ago

> other stuff
I was the first one to comment here, and I was just going off of what was shown in the screenshots.

Anyways, yeah, terracopy is good when it comes to the things that windows file copier tend to choke at

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u/The_ScrapMicanist 13h ago

Geometry dash mention

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u/Hottage 9800X3D | 64GB DDR5 | RTX 4080 | 4TB NVMe | 4K 240hz OLED 13h ago

Write Cache:

PANIC

calm

PANIC

calm

PANIC

calm

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u/trifortay123 12h ago

You have no idea how rare this is.

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u/ItsMeSashaYT 8h ago

it isn't?

any flash drive that is slightly shit will have such issues. as it fills it cache up, it stops receiving more files from Windows. Once the cache is under a preset threshold full, it continues requesting files, and pulls more from Windows.

Also depends on firmware within the flash drive, some will just rate limit themselves to whatever speed the cache gets written to NAND.

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u/Mean_Environment6657 9h ago

I do have a little bit of idea💡... That's prolly why I posted this lol like a picture perfect almost Mathematical wave 😭

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u/[deleted] 13h ago

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u/Mean_Environment6657 13h ago

I have my old desktop lying around lol so I'm trying to reboot it but it already runs win10 normally so I'm going with Arch instead of a lightweight

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u/Hottage 9800X3D | 64GB DDR5 | RTX 4080 | 4TB NVMe | 4K 240hz OLED 13h ago

He uses Arch, by the way.

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u/YacaloX Windows 11 5h ago

Curious fact: the specific wave formula is v(t) = v₀ + A · |sin(ωt + φ)|

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u/yuehuang 4h ago

It is your computer asking "are we there yet".