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/g/ wizards I can't figure this out, the write speeds to my external hdd seem too slow.
I'm using a WD Elements 1 TB USB 3.0 as external hdd, the partition table is GPT and the partition is has a Ext4 LUKS encrypted filesystem
KDE Plasma 5.27.1
Kernel 6.1.12-zen1-1-zen (64-bit)
Garuda Linux (Arch based distro for noobs)
I'm using rsync -avh --progress to copy a 20~ GB file from my internal nvme to it and rsync shows a speed rate of about 500 MB/s thenrapidly drops to 5-20 MB/s shortly after copying 2 GB of the file. This sounds off to me.
I tried Dolphin (Plasma's file manager) and Thunar (booting a session with Xfce4 instead of KDE Plasma) and got the same results.
I tried updating packages and rebooting and got the same results
The relevant output of lsusb -t shows
/: Bus 02.Port 1: Dev 1, Class=root_hub, Driver=xhci_hcd/6p, 5000M
|__ Port 4: Dev 7, If 0, Class=Mass Storage, Driver=usb-storage, 5000M
|__ Port 6: Dev 8, If 0, Class=Hub, Driver=hub/4p, 5000M
Is my system using the correct driver? What the hell is going on, shouldn't it copy faster? Any help is appreciated.
