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Does KDE makes file transfers between hard drives slower? My laptop is too slow when copying files to my usb flash drive.
(programming.dev)
I have two laptops, I'll call them laptop 1 and laptop 2.
Laptop 1 is my gaming laptop, and laptop 2 is a very low-spec one that I use as a jellyfin server. Here's the neofetch result for both of them:
Laptop 1
Laptop 2
The problem
On both of them, I copied a 5GB folder from the laptop to my 3.0 usb flash drive, I used this rsync command on each:
rsync -a --progress folder_path destination_folder_path
| Laptop | Average transfer speed |
|---|---|
| Laptop 1 | 9MB/s |
| Laptop 2 | 45MB/s |
How is this possible? The Laptop 1 is way superior than laptop 2. The laptop 1 has an nvme SSD while laptop 2 has an old 320GB HDD, yet the transfer speed difference is insane.
Does KDE affect the folder copying somehow? If I copy a file on the same SSD on laptop 1, the speed reaches more than 400MB/s.
What is going on here?
You could try copying the same data under different circumstances.
How about to another location on the same disk? How about to a location over the network via wifi? If possible, the same test over a wired connection? If you have a flash reader and a card, try that too?
These will help rule in or out USB as a contributing factor.
Edit: further, you could boot to a live image to isolate whether it's a software issue or a configuration issue vs hardware.