Comment 218 for bug 197762

I have been following this bug report for a long time now and here is some advice to the people that have only recently begun to post here.

This bug has hundreds of postings and no reasonable person could possible read all of them in order to start fixing something.

Through time it has become obvious that this is not one single bug. It is very possible that there several bugs that each leads to reduced speed under different circumstances.

If you read several comments back, you will discover that some people tried to fix this bug, but they were unable to reproduce it. Apparently it is not a Dolphin or Nautilus issue and in any case you should start excluding stuff so that you can find the heart of the problem.

So, many postings earlier there was an agreement that people should stop posting to this bug. Instead, people should start new bug reports and post specific data that could be useful to bug fixers.

The best way to provide bug fixers with useful data is to follow the instructions that appear here.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DiskPerformance

If you have the time and you want to help, please conduct some tests and test your theory about what affects the USB performance. If you think you discover something, please post a new bug report.