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Found USB 2.0 device 'Kingston DataTraveler 3.0 USB Device' (0951:1666)
Your device is operating at USB 2.0 speeds.
Please make sure that you use an USB 3.0 device and that Rufus reports Found USB 3.0 device...
in the log.
As long as you don't see that, it's going to be slow, especially when there are many small files to copy (which is usually what happens when you extract content from an ISO, as Rufus does, instead of copying the ISO as a whole... which you can't do if you want to boot).
For the record, on my machine and with a decent USB 3.0 drive, I've never seen a Linux distro that took more than 5 minutes to be converted to bootable USB, so the problem is on your side.
Could there be a problem with the USB controller drivers?
I am completely sure both the device and the port are USB 3.0 capable.
I am completely sure both the device and the port are USB 3.0 capable.
You may want to double check that your flash drive is really plugged on an USB 3.0 port. It can be an easy mix up with some computers.
Also, normally, if your device is really USB 3.0 but plugged on an USB 2.0 port, Rufus would report something like:
Found USB 2.0 device 'SanDisk Extreme USB Device' (0781:5580)
NOTE: This device is an USB 3.0 device operating at lower speed...
Considering that Rufus reports exactly what Windows sees by default, the fact that you don't get the note about the device operating at lower speed tells me that, as far as Windows is concerned, your Kingston DataTraveler 3.0 USB Device
is an USB 2.0 device. It definitely wouldn't be the first time a manufacturer inserts a version number into their product (3.0
), that doesn't have anything to do with the effective USB bus speed of the device, just so that unaware customers think the device is faster than it really is.
Unless your device needs a special driver to be accessed (which of course applications like Rufus are not going to support, as we rely on the standard Windows mass storage drivers), I have to say that I am pretty certain that your device IS USB 2.0, and that you will never achieve the speeds that you expect with it. I would strongly advise to get your hands on a real USB 3.0 drive (one that will get detected as USB 3.0 by both Rufus and Windows), with decent flash memory speeds (as if you have an USB 3.0 device, but with slow write speed for the memory, it's not going to change much) as you should find that your slow speed issues disappear then. An USB 3.0 flash drive with advertised write speed of more than 40 MB/s should do the trick.
I tested the USB device with a benchmarking software and checked the real specifications on the manifacturer's website, and it turns out you were right: it has shitty write speed. I'm not sure how they get away with reporting "USB 3.0 performance" everywhere on the product material and casing, seems to me like false advertising.
Thank you.
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button in Rufus and copy/pasted the log into the line that says<FULL LOG>
below.Rufus version: x.y.z
- I have NOT removed any part of it.Additionally (if applicable):
#
button (at the bottom of the Rufus interface), to compute the MD5, SHA1 and SHA256 checksums, which are therefore present in the log I copied. I confirmed, by performing an internet search, that these values match the ones from the official image.Issue description
Hi, It took me 2 hours (NOT including bad blocks check) to create a bootable USB live medium of Ubuntu 16.04
I tried merely copying the whole .iso on the very same USB drive and it took around 6 mins with a USB 3.0 port.
I tried with a smaller .iso (that of Alpine OS, which is <150 MB) and it took between 10 and 15 mins to complete. It behaved correctly when I booted into it.
I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but it doesn't seem right that it took all this time.
Thank you in advance, Cheers.
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