I have a couple of USB3.1 Integral Courier USB sticks. 1x 256GB and 1x 64GB.
I have wondered why trying to install a Linux OS on them was taking do darned long so I have been doing a bit of testing on the 64GB stick.
The transfer speed of rsync when the stick is formatted EXT4 drops to around 1MB/s after the initial caching and writing some of the data to the stick, and rsync tells me I am going to wait hours for the 13GB file to be copied over.#
Example:
root@RTS3050Mint:/home/mikx4# nocache rsync -v --progress /media/mikx4/NobaraHome/mikx4/Downloads/kali-linux-2025.2-installer-everything-amd64.iso /home/mikx4/USBstick1/kali-linux-2025.2-installer-everything-amd64.iso
kali-linux-2025.2-installer-everything-amd64.iso
3,922,034,688 29% 37.00kB/s 71:30:34
I formatted the stick to Exfat with gparted and 13GB took only 4 minutes.
Are there certain USB manufacturer sticks that we have to use when we format them as EXT4?
Thank you.
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