| From: D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | SanDisk Cruzer Glide 16GB USB stick | 7135559680 bytes (7.1 GB, 6.6 GiB) copied, 1560.63 s, 4.6 MB/s | real 26m4.152s ================ Corsair Voyager SliderX1 32G stick: 7135559680 bytes (7.1 GB, 6.6 GiB) copied, 279.491 s, 25.5 MB/s real 4m44.206s ================ ADATA C103 USB Flash Drive 64G 7135559680 bytes (7.1 GB, 6.6 GiB) copied, 155.161 s, 46.0 MB/s real 2m38.244s ================ (the real time includes the second or two that it takes me to enter my password.) ================ [A slightly relevant Windows war story. Really a whine. Consider skipping.] I've been wrestling with Win10. It really isn't good doing Windows Update with a 32G "HDD". Why should it handle this size? Because Microsoft forced this size upper limit on manufacturers with their licensing terms. I even bought a few such machines from Microsoft itself. (They run Linux just fine.) I recently got stuck with not enough space on C: (think /root). Even when I threw everything overboard. One possible victim was left: the Paging File. It was stubbornly stuck at 1.1GiB. I wanted to put a paging file on another drive so that I could get back the 1.1G of space on C:. The documentation says that this is possible with a USB stick or SD card iff it was ReadyBoost ready. That supposedly means "fast enough". - ReadyBoost is an obsolete technology. Vendors don't sell ReadyBoost ready devices - there is a ReadyBoost tab when you look at device properties in Win10. It just tells me that it is disabled on my computer because I have an SSD c:. Not useful. I want to know about ReadyBoost ready, not actually use ReadyBoost. - the Paging File configuration setting (buried way deep in Win10) doesn't see my USB flash sticks or my SD card. - the Paging File configuration setting does see an external USB HDD. So I try that. When I reboot, Win10 says that it has to temporarily create the Paging File on C:. So this is no advance. - Microsoft Support struggle with understanding the issue. When they do, they give useless advice.