Posts Tagged “usb”

Ubuntu Linux: Is your external usb drive slow?

I don’t know when this happened but my external USB drives were running really slow. Reading RAW images off them took ages, backups took forever, and moving files back and forth was plain slow. I use two Seagate FreeAgent external drives. They’re both USB 2 devices so should sustain more than the maximum 1MB/s I [...]

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Wolverine SixPac and Linux

The 20 GB SixPac Media Reader & Storage Drive is an external drive with integrated card readers for 6 of the most common Flash cards. It works fine with the CF and SD cards I’ve thrown at it, but I couldn’t get Linux to recognise it. The partition table of the device isn’t a standard [...]

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