Is there a way to improve transfer rates? Right now it’s maxing out at about 6Mb/s. I’ve noticed that transfer speeds are better on a fresh install on previous Linux distros (up to 30Mb/s). However I’ve already installed all the online updates.
On 2015-09-15 21:26, marlboroman wrote:
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> Is there a way to improve transfer rates? Right now it’s maxing out at
> about 6Mb/s. I’ve noticed that transfer speeds are better on a fresh
> install on previous Linux distros (up to 30Mb/s). However I’ve already
> installed all the online updates.
Where is it writing to?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))
to ‘/Home/Music’
On 2015-09-15 21:56, marlboroman wrote:
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> robin_listas;2728305 Wrote:
>> Where is it writing to?
> to ‘/Home/Music’
And what do you have there?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))
On 2015-09-15 21:56, marlboroman wrote:
> robin_listas;2728305 Wrote:
>> Where is it writing to?
> to ‘/Home/Music’
And what do you have there? What type of media? How is it connected?
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))
Are you sure you mean /Home/Music? In the title you talk about /Music, which is of course not the same.
In fact I think you mean the Music directory (or folder if you prefer that expression) in your home directory. And that is known in the system as either ~/Music or $HOME/Music or completley written /home/marlboroman/Music (when malrboroman is the username on the system).
Please be exact and precise and use indications as used on the system. People will be confused, because it is possible to have /Music. It would be a directory right in the root (/) of the directory tree. And in that case it could easy be a separate file system. And thus on a separate medium (mass-storage device), which could be the source of the bad transfer rate.
So please explain what you do, copy from where to where and how (cp statement, rsync, “dragging” in GUI windows)?
Folders, albums of music. mp3 format. USB cord.
I’m trying to copy my music mp3 folders to /home/user/Music. And yes I will just open up 2 dolphin windows and drag my mp3 folder (on the external hard drive) to /home/user/Music.
On 2015-09-16 20:36, marlboroman wrote:
>> So please explain what you do, copy from where to where and how (cp
>> statement, rsync, “dragging” in GUI windows)?
>
> I’m trying to copy my music mp3 folders to /home/user/Music. And yes I
> will just open up 2 dolphin windows and drag my mp3 folder (on the
> external hard drive) to /home/user/Music.
On 2015-09-16 20:26, marlboroman wrote:
> Folders, albums of music. mp3 format. USB cord.
Sorry, but if you refuse to answer our questions, we can not help you.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” at Telcontar)
GUI transfers tend to be slow with lots of large files particularly from a foreign file system like any Windows NTFS or FAT. Use the command line cp or dd it will go much faster 
On 2015-09-16 23:18, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2015-09-16 20:36, marlboroman wrote:
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>>> So please explain what you do, copy from where to where and how (cp
>>> statement, rsync, “dragging” in GUI windows)?
>>
>> I’m trying to copy my music mp3 folders to /home/user/Music. And yes I
>> will just open up 2 dolphin windows and drag my mp3 folder (on the
>> external hard drive) to /home/user/Music.
>
>
> On 2015-09-16 20:26, marlboroman wrote:
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>> Folders, albums of music. mp3 format. USB cord.
>
>
> Sorry, but if you refuse to answer our questions, we can not help you.
I’ll expand.
You have to tell us what you are copying, from where to where, and how.
That means describing not only the paths, but what disks and partitions
are mounted where and how, what are those physical disks, how they are
connected. It is USB 1, 2, or 3. Is it ATA, SATA, PATA, SCSI. Cable or
fibre. Is it, no, are them mechanical disks, what RPM, or are they Flash
media, what type of Flash, are they USB sticks.
Man, give details!
We are not on your seat, we can not see what you see, so get in front of
your keyboard and type!
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 13.1 x86_64 “Bottle” (Minas Tirith))
I have since reinstalled xfce and transferred my files before updating. I got 30Mb/s transfer rate. So obviously the problem lies within updating your system. It’s a shame these “needed upgrades” cause transfer speeds to be so slow.