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Improve Flash Drive Performance

So after having my 32 GB PNY Attache flash drive fail every time I tried to write to 

sync
, it finally let me after using

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badblocks -vw /dev/sdx

But discovering that command wasn't the end, I had to deal with it's almost impossible write-speed, this information helped:

Append to /etc/rc.local

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echo madvise > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/enabled
echo madvise > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/defrag
echo 0 > /sys/kernel/mm/transparent_hugepage/khugepaged/defrag

Append to /etc/sysctl.conf

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kernel.shmmax=134217728
vm.dirty_background_bytes = 4194304
vm.dirty_bytes = 4194304

Thanks once again to ArchWiki