Thumb drive ext2 slow write speed

[Jonas Norlander]

2008/11/4 Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>:
> Well, high speed is really vague, isn't it? OTOH, 1MB/s would be 8Mbit/s
> and if you add the USB protocol overhead you are near the 12Mbit/s limit
> of USB 1.1. Which reminds me of the USB hub I once had. If you have the
> USB stick connected via a hub, check that the hub really is USB 2.0
> capable.
>
> But you need USB 2.0 even if the maximum write speed really is 1MB/s
> because the read speed of flash memory is much higher than the write
> speed.
>

So what can the theoretical write speed be with USB 2? I have a
Corsair Survival 16 Gb and the test I seen on the net shows a write
speed of more then 20 MB/sec but I'm far from that during my test. Did
a test now with tiobench (tiobench --threads=1) and got a result of.
Sequential Read: 26.77 megabytes per sec.
Sequential Writes: 5.87 megabytes per sec.

More then 1 MB/s but not near 20 as the results on the net.

/ Jonas