When I copy files to the USB device, it takes much longer than in windows (same usb device, same port) it's faster than USB 1.0 speeds (1MB/s) but much slower than USB 2.0 speeds (12MB/s). To copy 1.8GB takes me over 10 minutes (it should be < 3 min.) I have two identical SanDisk Cruzer 8GB sticks, and I have the same problem with both. I have a super talent 32GB USB SSD in the neighboring port and it works at expected speeds.

The problem I seem to see in the GUI is that the progress bar goes to 90% almost instantly, completes to 100% a little slower and then hangs there for 10 minutes. Interrupting the copy at this point seems to result in corruption at the tail end of the file. If I wait for it to complete the copy is successful.

Any ideas? dmesg output below:

[64059.432309] usb 2-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
[64059.526419] scsi8 : usb-storage 2-1.2:1.0
[64060.529071] scsi 8:0:0:0: Direct-Access     SanDisk  Cruzer           1.14 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[64060.530834] sd 8:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg4 type 0
[64060.531925] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] 15633408 512-byte logical blocks: (8.00 GB/7.45 GiB)
[64060.533419] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] Write Protect is off
[64060.533428] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
[64060.534319] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] No Caching mode page present
[64060.534327] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
[64060.537988] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] No Caching mode page present
[64060.537995] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
[64060.541290]  sdd: sdd1
[64060.544617] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] No Caching mode page present
[64060.544619] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] Assuming drive cache: write through
[64060.544621] sd 8:0:0:0: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk