My Flash Drive Is Too Slow!

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by HarryPotter, Sep 25, 2021.

  1. HarryPotter

    HarryPotter MajorGeek

    Hi! I have an issue with my main flash drive, which contains some of my programs: it's too slow. My laptop has two USB 2.0 ports and one USB 3.1 port. AFAIK, the flash drive is USB 2.0, so it shouldn't be this slow. It mainly happens when writing to the drive. What gives?
     
  2. Eldon

    Eldon Major Geek Extraordinaire

  3. HarryPotter

    HarryPotter MajorGeek

    I thank you for the advice, but I'm not sure I'm using the USB 3.1 port on my laptop for the flash drive. I will deal with what I have for now. I'm just wondering if there's a way to speed up the flash drive as it is.
     
  4. plodr

    plodr Major Geek Super Extraordinaire

    No, if the specs on the USB drive are 1.1 or 2 you can't magically change the hardware to 3.
    Test it https://www.pcworld.com/article/2455205/test-the-speed-of-your-usb-drives.html

    download link leads to MajorGeeks
    https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/usb_flash_benchmark.html

     
    Last edited: Sep 26, 2021
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  5. HarryPotter

    HarryPotter MajorGeek

    I believe the drives are USB 2.0 but are a little too slow, especially when writing data to the drives.
     
  6. Eldon

    Eldon Major Geek Extraordinaire

    See post #4. ;)
     
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  7. harmless

    harmless Staff Sergeant

    in all of my experience in using usb 2 thumb drives, writing to them has always been slow. especially when trying to write large files or a large number of files. i would sit there and shake my head and wonder how usb beat out firewire... anyway, as they say... imho... for file copying, usb2 is just slow, always has been for me. but evidently good enough for the rest of humanity. good luck with it all.
     

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