USB Flash drive speed issues with small files

[mipial]

Hello all. I had a problem with a Sandisk pen drive some time ago:

The drive became almost unusable, so I got a new one:
https://www.toshiba-memory.com/es/products/toshiba-usb-flash-drives-transmemory-u363/

 

But running portableapps from it is excruciatingly slow. Even more than with the SanDisk. For big files it is super fast, but for small files it's like it was broken:

 

 

 

Can this be normal?

[zassou]

im almost certainly you got a knockoff drive. next time you should try getting a toshiba or sony drive as there's less fake ones around.

 

but generally usb keys arent built for random acess, they are really bad at small files. you should make a archive of your most used software, copy to the computer you'll using instead running them off the drive.