>> I'm curious, WHICH version of windows?

Win2003 Srv SP3

WinXP SP2
HP, Dell and some other clone hardware as well. Different issues though, but
going max speed always call for problems in most cases.

2008/11/26 Herbert Graf <mailinglist4@farcite.net>

> On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 19:34 +0100, Ariel Rocholl wrote:
> > Yes, my worst experiences are with Windows drivers. But this is relevant
> > because many (including the original post) consider someting is main
> stream
> > when Windows supports it.
> >
> > One example is to get a 16GB CF card from Sandisk or Samsung, to put some
> > known trademarks I've tried. Use now a Sandisk CF reader into your USB2,
> > copy a full set of 8x2GB files into the CF card. More often than not,
> > Windows will freeze. Easy way to fix is to limit the copy speed, using
> for
> > instance TotalCommander, to something like 5MB/sec.
> >
> > This is by no mean the only case, but one very easy to test. I've
> > experienced a plethora of problems in many different machines at highest
> > USB2 speed when you work with USB HD drives, devices connected to a USB
> host
> > rather than directly to the mainboard USB, etc.
> >
> > This is very different experience than I have with Firewire, same HD
> using
> > the Firewire port never hangs at max speed, whereas on USB2 frequently
> get
> > "unable to write page swap" and need rejoining the drive.
> >
> > And now we increase the speed on USB3.
> >
> > Certainly not for me.
>
> Doesn't sound like you're doing anything out of the ordinary. I'm
> curious, WHICH version of windows? I know Vista had several file system
> issues early on, and your description does have some similarities.
>
> FWIW I regularly move multi GB files to and from USB mass storage
> devices and have never encountered the problems you describe. I
> routinely get 30MB/s from my "media drive", which is a 500GB USB drive
> connected to my server downstairs. The 30MB/s I get could very well be
> the physical limit of the drive, or it could be USB, I've never cared to
> find out. Flash cards never reach that speed, most will top out at about
> 10-15MB/s, which has nothing to do with USB, it's just their physical
> limit.
>
> Personally USB3 will be welcome; but I think people miss the point when
> they only consider current USB2 usage. The bandwidth USB3 will supply
> with allow for applications that either barely work now (the USB2 video
> cards that are now available), or simply don't exist right now (i.e. how
> about adding an extra CPU to your system for video transcoding,
> connected to your PC through USB3?)
>
> TTYL
>
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