<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Doing a backup of 13.5 Gig of data(mostly small files) from my MS Onedrive(locally sync'd on my SSD) onto a 5400RPM 512G USB3 2.5" HDD(Hitachi), I am seeing Thunar sucking up 18%-26% of my i7-2640M CPU for the duration. PC is running Mint 20.2 Xfce.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">CPU Fan speed is up some during the copy, can hear the fan. My PC is actually a 10yo ThinkpadX220 laptop and the backup HDD is only the sole USB3 port of my X220.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Running a live OS off a USB3-connected drive on a regular basis will likely show up a PC being a bit sluggish and loud, backing up via same, well, it's only for a short time for a backup.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks,<br><br>Ron S.<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jan 23, 2022 at 6:14 PM Khalid Baheyeldin <<a href="mailto:kb@2bits.com">kb@2bits.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Thanks all ... <br></div><div><br></div><div>With a docking station over USB 2.0, there was a huge hit on the CPU under Linux. <br></div><div>That is why I switched to e-SATA and it was great. <br></div><div>But the docking station died. <br></div><div><br></div><div>Are things different over USB 3.0? Specifically, no CPU penalty?<br></div></div>
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