I have two laptops, I’ll call them laptop 1 and laptop 2.

Laptop 1 is my gaming laptop, and laptop 2 is a very low-spec one that I use as a jellyfin server. Here’s the neofetch result for both of them:

Laptop 1

Laptop 2

The problem

On both of them, I copied a 5GB folder from the laptop to my 3.0 usb flash drive, I used this rsync command on each:

rsync -a --progress folder_path destination_folder_path

Laptop Average transfer speed
Laptop 1 9MB/s
Laptop 2 45MB/s

How is this possible? The Laptop 1 is way superior than laptop 2. The laptop 1 has an nvme SSD while laptop 2 has an old 320GB HDD, yet the transfer speed difference is insane.

Does KDE affect the folder copying somehow? If I copy a file on the same SSD on laptop 1, the speed reaches more than 400MB/s.

What is going on here?

  • @hperrin@lemmy.world
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    68 months ago

    It’s almost definitely not KDE. But we can’t know what it is with the information you’ve given us. We can speculate, and that’s about it.

    • @c10l@lemmy.world
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      18 months ago

      Speculating is great for troubleshooting. Every time someone speculates a possible cause, it’s possible to devise a way to test it. It’s called hypothesising. Each tested hypothesis, regardless of the actual results, helps to further the understanding of the problem.