Speed problems with USB stick.

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Hello,
i have a very strange problem with my USB stick,
when i am copy a big file to him the speed at the start are about 5 MB/s but when about 1 GB are transferred the copy speed are drop to 600 KB/s

what can be the problem?

Thanks you !

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I don’t know the answer to this but I’ve seen similar discussions across other distros. For example:

Idea #15648: “Solve write speed problems on USB 2.0 drives” - Ubuntu brainstorm

[ubuntu] Slow USB transfer on 8.04 [Archive] - Ubuntu Forums](http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-793688.html)

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and at openSUSE https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=566262