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Originally Posted by theducks
Thumb drives are slow.
 Why not get a external USB drive for about the same money and Lots, Lots bigger |
Especially when dealing with *lots* of small files (like a Calibre library consists of), they are abysmally slow. I did a mass update of my library (changing almost half of it) and the backup to a USB HD took 54 minutes using FreeFileSync. The same to my 32GB stick is still chugging away after 16 hours, and is now at 94.5%.
For large (40K books in my case) Calibre libraries USB sticks are not really a good solution.