USB transfer rate

[Joe505]

Hi guys. I wanted to find out if theres a way to increase the transfer rate when copying to a usb flash disk. Atm it copies at an average of 2.10 mb/s. What rates do you guys achieve?

 

[bboy]

buy a new flash drive, its probly the bottleneck, unless you stuck the drive in a usb 1 slot, but the pc would tell you that you are being an idiot and should plug it in a usb 2 drive.

Possible things wrong from most likely to least likely
.Slow flash drive
.dogedy mobo/usb drivers
.usb 1 port

 

[Joe505]

Its probably the flash drive itself. Coz i have a usb 2.0 and all drivers working fine

 

[EasyUp Web Hosting]

I get about 5mb/s copying to one of my old flash drives. The new 8gig one gets about 10-15mb/s

 

[sn3rd]

What speeds do you get copying FROM the disk?

 

[Joe505]

What make are your flashdrives sharkbait?

 

[Joe505]

@sn3rd Copying from the flash to the hdd i get speeds of around 15mb/s. Do you know of possible reasons 4 the difference?

 

[PeterCH]

Hi guys. I wanted to find out if theres a way to increase the transfer rate when copying to a usb flash disk. Atm it copies at an average of 2.10 mb/s. What rates do you guys achieve?

Cheap USB sticks are slow. More expensive ones are faster. It depends on the flash memory used. Get something like a SanDisk Cruzer Extreme but they're expensive - about double the price of non-Extreme versions. You should get full USB 2 speed, ie 480Mb/sec.

 

[agentrfr]

Fastest I've ever had down was 55MB/s (440Mbs/) and up around 20MB/s (160 Mb/s). Was one of those weird chineese things I picked up at the airport on way back from china. Was cheap too, like R120 for 8gigs.

 

[Chevron]

If you want a fast flash disk get the corsair flash voyager GT.

 

[Joe505]

Its probably coz of my flash drive then..coz its a real cheapie. Anyway thanks for the input okes!

 

[PeterCH]

oh you can enable "Write Behind Caching" to speed the stick up a bit, but you must
make sure to disconnect the device properly each time or you'll lose saved data.