Usb Pen drive Speeds.

[Freedom]

Quick Question.

I just bought a Kingston 16gb Pen drive, the Pen Drive is Usb2.0 and I have Usb2.0 Ports, but I'm only getting speeds of 700kb/sec transfer rate.

Is this normal or is there something wrong?

 

[Ben M]

That seems really slow if that's a read speed. My Corsair flash Voyager 8gb gets ~20mb/sec

 

[Ucof]

Was it off eBay?
You sure its a genuine Kingston one?

 

[Cogwork]

Can anyone recommend how to testing flash drive speed?
I dubious about just copying some files and seeing what vista shows, given how fked up file copying is in vista.

 

[Freedom]

Its from OcUK and thats writing speed

 

[Happy]

How many files and what size roughly. With any flash drive writing lots of small files cripples the speed.

 

[hawker1986]

As said if thats writing some small files then it sounds fine. Try one big file and see what it manages, or even run HDtune on it to see what its managing.

Hawker

 

[sketch145]

As said if thats writing some small files then it sounds fine. Try one big file and see what it manages, or even run HDtune on it to see what its managing.

Hawker

thats a great idea, why have I never thought of that? **goes off to test a multitude of flash drives**

 

[Smit]

I was under the impression that different USB drives had different transfer rates which is why some can utilise ReadyBoost etc.

700Kb/s does seem slow though. What kind of files are you trying to transfer?

 

[mattyy]

As said smaller file sizes will decrease speed. I find that it does depend on the system however.

My PC upstairs can hold a stead 25mb/s whereas the PC downstairs can only get up to 10mb/s...

 

[Ben M]

As said if thats writing some small files then it sounds fine. Try one big file and see what it manages, or even run HDtune on it to see what its managing.

Hawker

The free HD tune only does read speed IIRC =(

 

[Happy]

As said smaller file sizes will decrease speed. I find that it does depend on the system however.

My PC upstairs can hold a stead 25mb/s whereas the PC downstairs can only get up to 10mb/s...

I have also noticed this. In my case my old Nforce chipset was miles slower than my P35/X38 I have now at copying via memory stick.

 

[Freedom]

I'm copying one large Video File at 700mb, I used HD tune and it says the Transfer rate was between 16.6 Mb/sec to 29.4 Mb/sec, Could it be the Usb drivers or the Chip Set drivers?

 

[yashiro]

20-30MB/s is normal for USB2.

If it's slower there's an issue of it's running as USB1.
16-29 indicates it's just slow but there's no catastrophic failure going on.

 

[Happy]

That rate is fine