USB Speed Drops Off a Cliff
by Mr. Macintosh from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4T4KA)
I'm running Xubuntu 18.04 on a Dell Optiplex 3020. I'm having a strange issue where the USB 3.0 transfer speed starts out around the maximum speed of my hard drive (~100 MB/s) and slowly drops off. It runs at ~100 MB/s for about 30 seconds, drops to ~40 MB/S and then drops to ~22 MB/S But I'm also having this issue with USB 2.0 as well, except the starting transfer speed is around 60 MB/S. Is there a solution to this? Or is it just a weird bug of my hardware or the distro?
