[Gllug] performance boost for linux

James Hawtin oolon at ankh.org
Wed Feb 11 21:53:04 UTC 2009


On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 09:20:44PM +0000, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> Chris Bell wrote:
> > Using a USB connected device may slow your system rather than speed it up.
> 
> Mmm, why?
> 

I aways assumed USB was just quite slow/latent/bus intensive. When using USB 
keys on my server the flash drive is alot slower (By orders of magnitude)
than the 15k scsi drivers.

James

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