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I have a Generic uDisk/Flash disk (known as a fake flash drive). Write on 2,4MB/s, and read on 27MB/s. Tested on 20 sample with 20MB file and access 100 times (Linux Benchmark). I'm wishing I can make it run faster so I can create a LiveUSB on it or any bootable os.

Tengku Rahmaddansyah
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There is no way to make the underlying hardware of a flash drive faster.

If your PC has a fast enough processor, you could compress the OS and data to make the apparent throughput higher. On another post on this site, Breakthrough writes:

Assuming your CPU, using some compression algorithm, can compress at C MB/s and decompress at D MB/s, and your hard drive has write speed W and read speed R. So long as C > W, you get a performance gain when writing, and so long as D > R, you get a performance gain when reading.

That said, most popular Linux LiveUSB distributions are already compressed, as they utilize a filesystem called SquashFS. If you've already tried flashing a LiveUSB distribution to this flash drive and its performance is unacceptable, you're pretty much out of luck.

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  • Thank you nc4pk. I have created LiveUSB with this uDisk most of it fail except Lubuntu that created using Windows (before I remove it).

    It fails to create LiveUSB with any Distro on Linux (run on similar hardware with windows). And success to create Kubuntu with Macbook Pro 8.2 (another fail).

    I was Lucky.

    Before write and read fail by now.

     – Tengku Rahmaddansyah Jan 11 '17 at 20:19