usb 3.0 stick tranfer speeds really slow

[noobbuilder]

hi

 

i have a sandisk usb 3.0 stick and copying videos to the stick starts out at around 41 MB and then at about 15% complete the transfer speed drops down to 9-10 MB.

 

any ideas why this is happening ?

 

i am copying off a ssd to the usb 3.0 stick  plugged into a blue usb port.

 

thanks

[JefferyD90]

hi

 

i have a sandisk usb 3.0 stick and copying videos to the stick starts out at around 41 MB and then at about 15% complete the transfer speed drops down to 9-10 MB.

 

any ideas why this is happening ?

 

i am copying off a ssd to the usb 3.0 stick  plugged into a blue usb port.

 

thanks

I'm willing to bet that is just the stick itself.  I doubt it will ever really be much better.  Most USB storage drives use crappy controllers that can only handle so many commands in the que.  That coupled with the flash storage on these drives (generally) is just kinda shitty.  You'd have to pay a pretty penny for a well performing USB drive.

[Bittenfleax]

hi

 

i have a sandisk usb 3.0 stick and copying videos to the stick starts out at around 41 MB and then at about 15% complete the transfer speed drops down to 9-10 MB.

 

any ideas why this is happening ?

 

i am copying off a ssd to the usb 3.0 stick  plugged into a blue usb port.

 

thanks

Have you got USB 3.0 drivers installed? Also, are the USB 3.0 Ports plugged into the 3.0 socket on your motherboard? 

 

Are you sure that the stick is 3.0? Could be a fake?!!

[noobbuilder]

yes  i have usb 3.0 drivers installed and yes i checked and made sure there plugged into the right port on mb .

my toshiba external 3.0 2TB will copy the same file at 140 MB ...maybe it is just cause it was a cheap usb stick i only paid like $17 dollars for it ,but i still thought it would be faster than 9-10 MB

any suggestions on a usb 3.0 stick that will copy videos fast ?

[kameshss]

yes  i have usb 3.0 drivers installed and yes i checked and made sure there plugged into the right port on mb .

my toshiba external 3.0 2TB will copy the same file at 140 MB ...maybe it is just cause it was a cheap usb stick i only paid like $17 dollars for it ,but i still thought it would be faster than 9-10 MB

any suggestions on a usb 3.0 stick that will copy videos fast ?

What brand is that USB stick?

 

I suggest you to get something decent like Corsair's any Flash drives, Kingston's, Sandisk's and Adata. They're good.

[noobbuilder]

it's a Sandisk Ultra

[TheProfosist]

If you can tell the exact model I could look into it but yes usually read is on the box and the write is much much slower. The physically smaller drive assume the site to be worse.

[TheProfosist]

it's a Sandisk Ultra

Its a shower one that's kinda hard to open. The hole in the back is just through one thing piece of plastic? (or just link model)

[noobbuilder]

not sure the exact model but heres the link where i bought it

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820171923&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC-_-pla-_-USB+Flash+Drives-_-N82E16820171923&gclid=CNOGnM2F3ccCFZKIaQodcCgDSw&gclsrc=aw.ds

 

any help is much appreciated

[Blebekblebek]

did you plug any USB devices into USB3 port except that stick?

[Mahmud Reza Utsas]

me also face this problem

[noobbuilder]

 

did you plug any USB devices into USB3 port except that stick?

yes i also have a toshiba 3.0 2TB external drive plugged in , but its plugged into one of my back usb 3.0 ports

[Blebekblebek]

okay, you are trying to write data into it

 

unfortunately even with USB3 support, writing down flash drive isn't fast as it read.

it just nature of flash drive.

 

41MB first load, is the speed of your data buffering into system before it got passed to your flash drive.

try to copy from your flash drive to your ssd/hdd.

 

btw how speed write on your ext. hdd?

[Mahmud Reza Utsas]

mmmmmmmmm.....you have to use that way

[noobbuilder]

i just ran a test with hdtune and it says transfer rate is 

minmum   42.2MB

max          114.6MB

avg           100MB

burst          22.4MB

cpu usage   %13.7

[Blebekblebek]

benchmarking is not really helping with real situation

 

specially if you trying to copy/write lot's of files

you can try copying/writing single file.

[noobbuilder]

copy from the sandisk usb to ssd  is  130mb until it gets around 90% then drops to 30-40mb

 

the external toshiba drive copy and transfers to ssd  at avg 120-150mb

[noobbuilder]

i'm copying the same single file in each case a 6.55gb mkv file

[Blebekblebek]

so there's nothing wrong with your USB port, it works normally.

your flash drive is the limitation.

 

unfortunately there's nothing much you can do about it.

maybe getting USB SSD pendrive if you really want fast write.

or another flash drive brand with different chipset.

[noobbuilder]

alright thanks for your time i will get a better drive  i was just hoping there was something not set right and i could adjust.

[TheProfosist]

not sure the exact model but heres the link where i bought it

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820171923&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-PC-_-pla-_-USB+Flash+Drives-_-N82E16820171923&gclid=CNOGnM2F3ccCFZKIaQodcCgDSw&gclsrc=aw.ds

any help is much appreciated

That one will drop down to USB 2.0 speeds on the writes but it shouldn't be that slow especially for large sequential files like you using.

What usb 3.0 controller are you using. I ask because many boards have an additional as media controller.

[TheProfosist]

copy from the sandisk usb to ssd is 130mb until it gets around 90% then drops to 30-40mb

the external toshiba drive copy and transfers to ssd at avg 120-150mb

I'm surprised you getting that high on the writes initially. I bets it's because you using the same file to test and its still in the cache. Try crystal disc mark.