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Why Are Micro Center Flash Drives So Slow?
(hackaday.com)
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Windows prefers to deactivate or minimize the write cache on removable devices, most of the common Linux distros generally don't make such changes. Microsoft has a very good reason for that default: not a lot of people actually use the "safely remove hardware" option and if the cache is enabled, using and waiting for that is a hard requirement for the data to have actually made its way onto the drive.
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