On Mon, 2014-04-28 at 16:18 -0300, Fernando Cassia wrote:
on the rotating drive. Note that a real SSD can go about twice as
fast
as a SATA 2 port, which is probably what you have on your machine,
but
it will still be dramatically faster than a USB stick.
But there are USB 3.0 sticks too, the difference is narrower then than USB 2.0 ports :)
Even a USB 3 stick can't be faster than the port it's on. According to the OP's description, this is a machine which started life in the Fedora 1 days, when USB 3 wasn't even specified.
poc