I was fighting to copy 200GB of data from one USB drive to another on my Mac this morning. Both drives kept disconnecting, I tried to use rsync to at least be able to pick up where I left off, it just wasn't happening. Because USB (and Bluetooth) remains an absolute binfire on macOS.
So I plugged both devices into my old Dell tablet, running Ubuntu. No problems, getting ~900mb/s throughput, all done in minutes.
"It Just Works", my arse... 😒
I had some #UniversalSerialBus problems recently that I put down to power initially, which is why I was curious.
I've been having one on a #RaspberryPi that I originally thought was device hardware/hub issues, too. There are two HIDs plugged into a KVM, and both of them have extra buttons and keys above the norm.
I was fully ready to blame that for the problem, until I booted the Pi up without any USB connected at all and still the phantom keystrokes that were plaguing the bootstrap were appearing.
Must be software, then. (-:
I'm confident that the cheap and cheerful card reader from a computer fair years ago is genuinely crap in hardware, though. It has not worked when plugged in to several things, now.
I even tried putting the TF card into an adapter and putting it into the bigger slot.
Gary 
JdeBP