Ejecting USB drives - very slow

Since updating to Yosemite, my brand new iMacs (work machines) are all noticeably much slower ejecting USB flash drives. Really slow. These are new, top spec iMacs with clean installs and pretty empty harddrives.
Anyone else noticing this?

I was using my girlfriends USB 128MB stick last night, with no red light showing (well, not that I noticed), then when i dragged it to the ejector/recycle bin, the red light came on constantly (I presumed to tell me that it was ready to remove). I waited 5 seconds to see if it would go out but didn't.

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# /etc/fstab: static file system information
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none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
/dev/hda2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 / jfs defaults 0 1
/dev/hda3 /home jfs defaults 0 1
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dmesg:
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Linux version 2.6.15-archck (root@sara) (gcc version 4.0.3 20051222 (prerelease)) #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Mar 19 21:08:15 EST 2006
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003df40000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000003df40000 - 000000003df50000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000003df50000 - 000000003e000000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000003e000000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
95MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 253760
DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:0
DMA32 zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:31
HighMem zone: 24384 pages, LIFO batch:3
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 MSI ) @ 0x000f8400
ACPI: RSDT (v001 MSI 1013 0x10282005 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3df40000
ACPI: FADT (v002 MSI 1013 0x10282005 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3df40200
ACPI: MADT (v001 MSI OEMAPIC 0x10282005 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3df40300
ACPI: WDRT (v001 MSI MSI_OEM 0x10282005 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3df40360
ACPI: MCFG (v001 MSI OEMMCFG 0x10282005 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3df403b0
ACPI: SSDT (v001 OEM_ID OEMTBLID 0x00000001 INTL 0x02002026) @ 0x3df43700
ACPI: OEMB (v001 MSI MSI_OEM 0x10282005 MSFT 0x00000097) @ 0x3df50040
ACPI: DSDT (v001 MSI 1013 0x10282005 INTL 0x02002026) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x4008
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 15:4 APIC version 16
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, version 33, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 21 low level)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Allocating PCI resources starting at 50000000 (gap: 40000000:bff80000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda1 video=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr:3,1024x768-16@60 resume2=swap:/dev/hda2 ro disable_timer_pin_1
mapped APIC to ffffd000 (fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffc000 (fec00000)
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
Using 3579 PM timer ticks per jiffy
Detected 1592.644 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 1000248k/1015040k available (2065k kernel code, 14124k reserved, 748k data, 196k init, 97536k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3187.37 BogoMIPS (lpj=1593687)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 078bfbff e3d3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000001 00000000 00000001
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 078bfbff e3d3fbff 00000000 00000000 00000001 00000000 00000001
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 1024K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 078bfbff e3d3fbff 00000000 00000010 00000001 00000000 00000001
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 744k freed
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initramfs... successfully read 11800 bytes from /DSDT.aml.
ACPI-0292: *** Info: Table [DSDT] replaced by host OS
CPU0: AMD Turion(tm) 64 Mobile Technology MT-30 stepping 02
Total of 1 processors activated (3187.37 BogoMIPS).
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=2 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
Brought up 1 CPUs
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0031, last bus=1
PCI: Using MMCONFIG
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050902
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:14.1
Boot video device is 0000:01:05.0
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:14.4
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [_SB_.PCI0.P0P1._PRT]
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC] (gpe 6)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [_SB_.PCI0.POP2._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 5 6 7 *10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 5 6 7 10 *11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 5 *6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 5 6 *7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs *5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 5 6 7 10 11 12 14 15) *0, disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 10 devices
SCSI subsystem initialized
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report
PCI: Device 0000:02:03.0 not found by BIOS
PCI: Device 0000:02:04.0 not found by BIOS
PCI: Device 0000:02:04.1 not found by BIOS
PCI: Device 0000:02:04.2 not found by BIOS
PCI: Device 0000:02:09.0 not found by BIOS
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: d000-dfff
MEM window: fbe00000-fbefffff
PREFETCH window: f4000000-faffffff
PCI: Bus 3, cardbus bridge: 0000:02:04.0
IO window: 0000e000-0000e0ff
IO window: 0000ec00-0000ecff
PREFETCH window: 50000000-51ffffff
MEM window: 56000000-57ffffff
PCI: Bus 7, cardbus bridge: 0000:02:04.1
IO window: 00001000-000010ff
IO window: 00001400-000014ff
PREFETCH window: 52000000-53ffffff
MEM window: 58000000-59ffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:14.4
IO window: e000-efff
MEM window: fbf00000-fbffffff
PREFETCH window: 50000000-54ffffff
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:04.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:04.1[b] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [email protected]).
Initializing Cryptographic API
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
vesafb: ATI Technologies Inc., MS48, 01.00 (OEM: ATI MOBILITY RADEON Xpress 200G Series)
vesafb: VBE version: 2.0
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:52f9
vesafb: pmi: set display start = c00c5367, set palette = c00c53a1
vesafb: pmi: ports = d810 d816 d854 d838 d83c d85c d800 d804 d8b0 d8b2 d8b4
vesafb: no monitor limits have been set
vesafb: scrolling: ywrap using protected mode interface, yres_virtual=3072
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf4000000, mapped to 0xf8880000, using 6144k, total 32768k
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
ACPI: AC Adapter [ADP1] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID0]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3])
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (55 C)
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K,PNP0f03:PS2M] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.1.
serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.6[b] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:14.6 disabled
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1572864 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 786432 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
TCP bic registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
NET: Registered protocol family 17
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
Suspend2 Core.
Suspend2 Compression Driver loading.
Suspend2 Encryption Driver loading.
Suspend2 Swap Writer loading.
Suspend2 FileWriter loading.
ACPI wakeup devices:
POP2 RTL USB1 USB2 EUSB AC97 MC97
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 196k freed
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ATIIXP: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:14.1
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
ATIIXP: chipset revision 0
ATIIXP: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xff00-0xff07, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xff08-0xff0f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
hda: TOSHIBA MK6025GAS, ATA DISK drive
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input0
logips2pp: Detected unknown logitech mouse model 99
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
Probing IDE interface ide1...
input: ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input1
logips2pp: Detected unknown logitech mouse model 99
input: ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse as /class/input/input2
hdc: Slimtype DVDRW SDW-431S, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: max request size: 128KiB
hda: 117210240 sectors (60011 MB), CHS=65535/16/63, UDMA(100)
hda: cache flushes supported
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
JFS: nTxBlock = 7824, nTxLock = 62592
Suspend2 2.2: Swapwriter: Signature found.
Suspend2 2.2: Suspending enabled.
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
fglrx: module license 'Proprietary. (C) 2002 - ATI Technologies, Starnberg, GERMANY' taints kernel.
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 896 MBytes.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:05.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[fglrx] module loaded - fglrx 8.23.7 [Mar 6 2006] on minor 0
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
ndiswrapper version 1.10 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=yes)
ndiswrapper: driver neti2220 (LanExpress,03/29/2004,2.10.03.2004) loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:09.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
ndiswrapper: using irq 20
wlan0: vendor: 'INPROCOMM IPN2220 Wireless LAN Adapter'
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:11:09:16:cd:97 using driver neti2220, 17FE:2220.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA; AES/CCMP with WPA
powernow-k8: Found 1 AMD Athlon 64 / Opteron processors (version 1.50.4)
powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0x8 (1600 MHz), vid 0xa (1300 mV)
powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0x0 (800 MHz), vid 0x14 (1050 mV)
cpu_init done, current fid 0x8, vid 0x8
powernow-k8: ph2 null fid transition 0x8
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.6[b] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.5[b] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.2[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: irq 16, io mem 0xfbdff000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
ohci_hcd: 2005 April 22 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver (PCI)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: irq 16, io mem 0xfbdfd000
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.1[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: irq 16, io mem 0xfbdfe000
usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
hub 1-2:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-2:1.0: 4 ports detected
shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
usb 1-2.3: new low speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
input: USB Mouse as /class/input/input3
input: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [USB Mouse] on usb-0000:00:13.2-2.3
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xf8856c00, 00:0c:76:f9:35:a8, IRQ 22
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8101'
8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22, 2004)
hdc: ATAPI 24X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Adding 2097136k swap on /dev/hda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:2097136k
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.8
NET: Registered protocol family 31
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.1
Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.6
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
[fglrx] Maximum main memory to use for locked dma buffers: 896 MBytes.
[fglrx] free PCIe = 54804480
[fglrx] max PCIe = 54804480
[fglrx] free LFB = 19099648
[fglrx] max LFB = 19099648
[fglrx] free Inv = 0
[fglrx] max Inv = 0
[fglrx] total Inv = 0
[fglrx] total TIM = 0
[fglrx] total FB = 0
[fglrx] total PCIe = 16384
[fglrx] Flat panel plugged in
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: input irq status -71 received
usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 4
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 4
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
Vendor: Model: USB FLASH DRIVE Rev: 1.01
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 00
usb-storage: device scan complete
SCSI device sda: 507904 512-byte hdwr sectors (260 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
SCSI device sda: 507904 512-byte hdwr sectors (260 MB)
sda: Write Protect is off
sda: Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sda: assuming drive cache: write through
sda: sda1
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi removable disk sda
APIC error on CPU0: 00(40)
usb 1-3: USB disconnect, address 4
usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 5
scsi1 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 5
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usb 1-3: USB disconnect, address 5
lsmod:
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Module Size Used by
nls_cp437 6272 0
vfat 9984 0
fat 40348 1 vfat
sd_mod 13696 0
usb_storage 62272 0
rfcomm 31124 0
hidp 12928 2
l2cap 20224 10 rfcomm,hidp
bluetooth 37860 5 rfcomm,hidp,l2cap
snd_seq_oss 27264 0
snd_seq_midi_event 6272 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 43408 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 7052 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_pcm_oss 41760 0
snd_mixer_oss 15104 1 snd_pcm_oss
ide_cd 33284 0
cdrom 31520 1 ide_cd
8139cp 17024 0
8139too 22528 0
mii 4992 2 8139cp,8139too
joydev 8000 0
usbhid 40064 0
rtc 10164 0
shpchp 36832 0
pci_hotplug 22852 1 shpchp
ati_agp 7052 0
ohci_hcd 17028 0
ehci_hcd 27144 0
snd_atiixp 14988 3
snd_atiixp_modem 12296 0
snd_ac97_codec 80032 2 snd_atiixp,snd_atiixp_modem
snd_ac97_bus 2688 1 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm 69252 5 snd_pcm_oss,snd_atiixp,snd_atiixp_modem,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 19076 3 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 41956 14 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_atiixp,snd_atiixp_modem,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore 7776 1 snd
snd_page_alloc 8200 3 snd_atiixp,snd_atiixp_modem,snd_pcm
cpufreq_ondemand 6440 1
powernow_k8 11040 1
freq_table 4256 1 powernow_k8
ndiswrapper 157772 0
usbcore 100484 6 usb_storage,usbhid,ohci_hcd,ehci_hcd,ndiswrapperfglrx 438412 7
agpgart 26064 2 ati_agp,fglrx
jfs 152828 2
ide_disk 13568 4
atiixp 5264 0 [permanent]
generic 4868 0 [permanent]
ide_core 102864 5 usb_storage,ide_cd,ide_disk,atiixp,generic
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I am experiencing very, very slow backup times using an external drive attached to my Time Capsule. When I recently added a 3 TB Rocstor external drive to my mid-2011 iMac using FireWire, I included it in the drives to be backed up. The internal 2 TB of storage in my Time Capsule was no longer enough, so I plugged a 4 TB WD My Book Studio drive into the Time Capsule's USB 2.0 port and specified this WD drive as the only backup storage. The first backup took almost 48 hours. Now the Time Machine keeps trying to back up about 400 GB - 500 GB (though there haven't been any changes) and is transferring about 400 KB/sec over Ethernet from my iMac to the Time Capsule's external drive. What am I doing wrong? (I recently upgraded the iMac to OS X 10.10.2 Yosemite.)

Frankly, I have no way to gauge your network setup, so I can't really tell you what you should expect. I can tell you from my own experiences using a local network based on a 3rd Gen. Gigabit Ethernet AEBS that using Ethernet the average throughput (not interface) was in the neighborhood of 16-20 MBs/sec. The average throughput for a USB 2.0 drive connected directly was about the same.
This works out to an average throughput of around 60 GBs/hour. Depending upon file sizes and number of files being transferred a USB 2.0 drive might reach 100 GBs/hour, but that is a rare outcome. The USB 2.0 drive interface speed is about the same as FireWire 400 - 400 Mb/s or roughly 50 MBs/sec. This is what I know from measurement. Do not expect Ethernet to be any faster for throughput.

AirDisk vs. Networked drive very slow

hi everyone,
have been searching and browsing the forum around this topic but couldn't find a real answer or fix to my "problem" yet.
i'm just really curious about why an external drive hooked up to the airport extreme is about 10 times slower than a harddrive shared from another mac using wifi through the same base station.
setup is as follows:
LaCie BigDisk Extreme shared through a G4 Cube (love) > Ethernet Hub > Airport Extreme (Gigabit Ethernet) versus WD MyBook Premium II > USB 2.0 > Airport Extreme (Gigabit Ethernet)
i'm accessing both from a macbook (black one, latest model) and a macbook pro (latest model) - and transferring a file from the disk hooked up to the cube is about 10 times faster than the same file (or any other comparable in size) copied from the drive hooked up to the airport extreme basestation.
it does not make ANY difference at all if i set the basestation to any of the 4 options you find in the wireless radio mode options (802.11n 2.4/5GHz - b/g compatible), so i'm really curious if this is just a firmware issue (7.2.1) that will get fixed further down the road or if i'm doing something really stupid, or... if this is a half-baked feature never to be living up to the promise made?
anyone? any ideas?
thanks,
norbert

A Western Digital My Book Live. I've spent two days trading emails with a very nice person from the company who has asked me to try various fixes and nothing has worked. They are perplexed as to a solution and I'm close to pulling the plug on this endeavor.
I have an imac connected to a switch with the my book live and the imac connected to the switch. Switch connected to the wall ethernet jack that connects to the time capsule/airport device. The time capsule is connected to the verizon fios router/modem. I have the verizon wireless signal turned off. Everything else in the house has connected and has been working fine for a year. This network hard drive takes forever to access and is very slow.

Can't eject USB drive

Hi,
This is driving me crazy. Every time I used a USB drive, I am told that it can't be ejected because a program is using it. Sometimes it says the finder is using it (it shouldn't be: if the finder is using it it is only listing it as a drive). Relaunching the finder using "force quit" doesn't help: it just changes the message to "one or more programs may be using it". Shutting down every single program - none of which are using it anyway - doesn't help. I eventually get a force eject option, which I use, though that comes with a warning that force eject may damage files.
Any help appreciated. Running Yosemite on a late 2010 Air (though I get the same problem on my 2011 Macbook pro).
Thx.

I've been seeing the same problem (and reported it as a bug) with a number of applications (though not the Finder). When a file is in use it is flagged by the system Yosemite seems to either not change the file's flag to not in use or the system isn't getting that the flag has changed. So far exiting the program has solved it for me in every instance - though it is a pain. I think for now it is something we'll just have to live with until Apple tracks it down.

How to eject USB drive?

I have a USB drive that doesn't want to eject. It get the error that it is in use and can't be ejected. Yet, nothing is using it.
I'm trying to eject through Finder. Any ideas how to resolve this?

Worked just fine. Thanks.
Funny how Apple tech support can never solve anything. After an hour, they'll finally say, force quit everything, restart then restore to factory defaults. That's the common workflow. Get out the big hammer.

Download to flash drive very slow

Downloading to a USB flash drive (2 attempted: Sandisk Cruzer and Kingston, both with plenty to free space) has always been slower than other transfers (ie, HD to HD, HD to Firewire HD), but suddenly transfer rates plummeted from a few minutes for 50 MB to well over an hour. I tried restarting alone, ran Applejack on a second restart, nothing. Folders downloaded contain jpg images, pdfs, and MS doc and docx files, nothing unusual, and pretty much the exact same folders that were already on the drive. I was updating them to include a few current files. Incidentally, after none of the above worked, I tried deleting one of the folders I was replacing (and emptying the trash) before transferring the folder to the USB drive, with no success.
This has never been an issue on this same Power Mac g5 running the same everything and using the same 2 flash drives (I keep them as supplemental backups of current data).
Anybody have an idea why the transfer rate would slow this much?
thanks

Growl has been a big problem in the past a few times.
Show Hidden Files 1.0...
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/29096/show-hidden-files
Hidden Way is a toggle for hidden files view in Finder...
http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/25716/hidden-way
Show hidden files in OSX Finder
Open the Terminal and type or copy/paste:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool true
Reverting to the default of NOT showing hidden files:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles -bool false
*Restart or Force Quit Finder required to take effect.*
http://www.apple.com/downloads/dashboard/developer/hiddenfiles.html
http://www.burobjorn.nl/blog/?p=96
Finder Force Quit, or restart required to take effect.

Ejecting USB drives

A friend of mine has recently bought a macbook pro to upgrade his old Dell laptop. He is a keen photographer but daren't use CF cards with the macbook pro because when he ejects the cards the light stays ON on the reader. With his windows machine the light goes off when the card has been successfully ejected. He has been told that removing the card with power connected has a 1 in 50 chance of destroying the card.
I have never had a problem ejecting cards from the Mac but this doesn't reassure him. I was wondering if anyone know why the light doesn't go off when ejecting cards on the mac (I have noticed this with USB drives too). Does the light actually mean anything as far as turning the power off or is it just an indication from the software that the drive is ready to unplug?
He has measured the current in the USB cable when the windows machine ejects the drive and is convinced that power is being reduced to a minimum level somehow, I suspect this is just due to the fact that the LED is no longer on, but I would like to be able to give a definitive answer to this.

I was using my girlfriends USB 128MB stick last night, with no red light showing (well, not that I noticed), then when i dragged it to the ejector/recycle bin, the red light came on constantly (I presumed to tell me that it was ready to remove). I waited 5 seconds to see if it would go out but didn't.

USB is very slow...

I've been noticing that any USB drive I plug in has some *REALLY* slow write speeds. This is both in FAT32 and when I do Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
Read speeds seem to be ok. I've tried turning Spotlight off for the drive as well as trying the 2 different USB ports to see if one was "faster," but that's not the case.
XBench shows for Sequential Write/Read:
Uncached Write 0.95 (0.59 MB/sec ([4 blocks])
Uncached Write 0.84 (0.47 MB/sec ([256 blocks])
Uncached Read 20.74 (6.07 MB/sec)
Uncached Read 59.48 (29.90 MB/sec)
As you can see, the write speeds are abnormally slow. I'm open to suggestions on what might be the cause (and how to fix). As it stands, transfers of files to my iPhone never really seem to be slow from either port...
MBP 2.66GHz i7 8GB RAM. 10.7

Could be that it is only a 1.1 hub, instead of 2.0.....?
see > USB 2.0, Hi-Speed USB FAQ
You won't be sorry using a Belkin 4 or 7 Port self-powered hub.
Belkin Hi-Speed USB 2.0 4-Port Hub F5U233-APL
Belkin Hi-Speed USB 2.0 7-Port Hub F5U237v1

USB copying to flash Drive very slow suddenly!

hi
i just got my brand new macbook and the ipod touch and so far i love my new mac experience at first i copied my music( 5 GB) on a flash drive and copied it to my macbook and ipod since they both r 2.0 usb they did it pretty fast!
later i was copying the same stuff to the same flash drive and it took me 2 hours to do that the ipod still syncs at a good speed but i don't know if the problem is in the drive or the laptop
i have the same problem on my windows xp machine which has 1.1 usb but the it's much slower than it's supposed to be!
i've searched the forums and other guys have the same thing but no solution !
i swithced to mac to get over windows problems but i'm starting to get disappointed!
any help would be appreciated and plz give me some advice on how to handle the new keyboard! and anything mac
thanks !

I have been experiencing the same problem with an Intel iMac 17" here. I use a variety of external powered hard drives and flash drives via USB. I notice last month that transfer speeds had dropped considerably. That and the fact it had been a year or so since I had last reinstalled prompted me to completely wipe out and reinstall the OS (10.5).
After a complete erase and install, with all current updates applied as of this date, the problem still persists. For example, I have my iTunes library on an external self-powered hard drive. Playing songs is fine, but video is unwatchable. Just now, I attempted to copy a movie file (approx. 700 mb) to a USB flash drive. The reported transfer time was 5 hours!! This is true across the board for me, no matter how the configuration is, be it devices connected directly to the machine's own USB ports or through a powered hub, having self-power or powered through the port.
This problem has only started for me in the last couple of months, with regular updates applied as they came out. Resetting the SMC has also not worked.

Mountain Lion Time Machine backup to USB drive super slow

I recently upgraded the MacBook Air to Mountain Lion. The time machine backup is SUPER SLOW even when doing it on a USB 3.0 Drive. It currently showing 2 days for 100GB backup. I was able to copy the same 100 GB of files on to the same hard disk in less than 1 hr. This is so slow that i might be better off managing back ups manually or just writing a small script to do it. But before I do so wanted to check if anybody else has the same issues.
Regards
Uddhav
Update:
Turning off the spotlight on the external hard disk helped improve the speed dramatically. Brought it down from 1 GB in 1 hr to almost 1 GB / minute.
System Preferences --> Spotlight
Add the Drive to the exceptions list. It will say this is a time machine disk so except the time machine folder everything else will be added to the exception list. Say Yes and thats it !!!
Now says 19hrs still a lot according to me but much better than 2 days.
Any body has any additional tips /tricks please share !!
Regards
Uddhav

uddhav wrote:
Turning off the spotlight on the external hard disk helped improve the speed dramatically.
That may indicate a damaged index. Keep an eye on subsequent backups -- if they take a long time, and/or show "indexing backup" on the Time Machine preferences panel for very long, you may need to delete it, so OSX can recreate it. See the pink box in #D2 of Time Machine - Troubleshooting for instructions.
It will say this is a time machine disk so except the time machine folder everything else will be added to the exception list.
Is there anything else on the drive (in the same partition)? If so, that's usually not a good idea. See Time Machine - Frequently Asked Question #3 for an explanation.
Now says 19hrs still a lot according to me but much better than 2 days.
Yes, that's quite slow, especially if your Mac supports USB 3.
If it doesn't, it should be running at USB 2 speeds, which for a full backup should be, very roughly, 40-50 GB/hour.
See the rest of #D2 in the Troubleshooting link for other causes of slow backups.

How to eject USB drive safely when it isn't mounted?

Hi,
I bought a USB 3.0 splitter on eBay and took it to the test. I put in four devices but only three of them showed up. I have tried to search a bit but I couldn't find any solution. As far as I know, the hard drive isn't mounted but it is running.
I have had this problem some time ago but I think I just pulled the drive out that time. I don't want to risk damaging the hard drive because it contains important data. This didn't happen before I (unfortunately) upgraded to Yosemite and have had some other faults too.
Does anyone of you know how to eject the hard disk properly?

If it’s not mounted, it can just be unplugged. To double-check, choose Utilities from the Finder’s Go menu; if all the volumes on a drive appear in gray in the sidebar, it can be safely unplugged. If the drive doesn’t appear at all, the computer doesn’t recognize that it’s connected, and it can be safely unplugged.
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IMac with SSD and Hard drive very slow startup time

I have a new mid 2011 iMac with a 250gb SSD drive and a 2TB drive. All are from Apple as BTO options. When I first used the iMac my typical startup time from the hardware check chime to desktop was typically 12 seconds. Something, somehow has been changed because now it takes over one minute to boot up from the SSD. After the chime I hear the fans running and also the 2tb drive. After about 20 seconds I hear the hard drive spin down and then after another 20 seconds it starts up again. Once it starts up the boot up sequences contiunes and returns to the desktop. After this the iMac perfprms as normal. I have tried running disk utility from the recovery partition. I have also reinstalled Lion as well from the recovery partition and neither of these change the outcome.
When I first got the iMac I used time machine to restore from a previous machine into the 2tb partition and then went into advanced options in System preferences>Users&Groups to point to my home folder on the 2Tb drive rather than the default one on the SSD. That was working fine until I discovered software problems with both Preview and Textedit where they would not start up with this arangement. I then repointed my home folder to the default one on the SSD which cured this issue with these programmes leaving my data remaining on the 2Tb drive. Since doing this I have had the one minute boot up problem.
Can anyone offer any advice as to how I may overcome this problem and get my iMac back to starting up in twelve seconds from the SSD as it did before. Any help would be appreciated on this topic.
Thanks.

Where do you maintain your Home folder - on the SSD or on the HDD?
If you want to do a clean install (from scratch) then do the following:
Install or Reinstall Lion from Scratch
If possible backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive.
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Erase the hard drive:
Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Erase button and wait until the process has completed.
Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion: Select Reinstall Lion and click on the Install button.
Note: You can also re-download the Lion installer by opening the App Store application. Hold down the OPTION key and click on the Purchases icon in the toolbar. You should now see an active Install button to the right of your Lion purchase entry. There are situations in which this will not work. For example, if you are already booted into the Lion you originally purchased with your Apple ID or if an instance of the Lion installer is located anywhere on your computer.
Before you go to the extreme of the above would you do this:
Open Activity Monitor in the Utilities folder. Select All Processes from the Processes dropdown menu. Click twice on the CPU% column header to display in descending order. If you find a process using a large amount of CPU time, then select the process and click on the Quit icon in the toolbar. Click on the Force Quit button to kill the process. See if that helps. Be sure to note the name of the runaway process so you can track down the cause of the problem.
Just in case your system slowness is due to something eating up CPU time. Oh, and if your system is brand new check the upper right corner of the menubar for a "dot" inside the Spotlight glass. This means Spotlight is indexing the drive. Until it finishes your system will be quite sluggish.

Ejecting USB drives - very slow

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