USB 3.0 Slow Downs

[JacksonianMan]

Hello, I am having a problem with my transfer speeds when using a USB stick.  My Dad and I do a lot of transferring with a large USB stick so that we do not have to both download games separately. (This is because we have terrible internet and our area doesn't offer anything better.)  Anyways, when my dad is copying files to and from the USB stick, its quite quick at speeds on average of 80 mb/s and topping around 130 mb/s.  While it is plugged into my computer however, it is a at max 22 mb/s and drops even below that. I will note however, that at the very beginning of the transfer, it is up at normal speeds and then drops after a short time. I have NO IDEA why it is doing this. I have it plugged in to the front of my case into a USB 3.0 slot.  Does anyone know what might be wrong?

[Heliian]

Your dad has a better setup I assume.

[Catsrules]

Guessing his computer is just faster, What are you copying too? Hard drive/SSD?

 

Try updating your USB drivers.

 

You could try a different USB port, preferably on on the back.

 

 

[JacksonianMan]

10 minutes ago, Heliian said:

Your dad has a better setup I assume.

Actually I recently did a big upgrade and mine is faster, and we are both using SSDs.

[JacksonianMan]

8 minutes ago, Catsrules said:

Guessing his computer is just faster, What are you copying too? Hard drive/SSD?

 

Try updating your USB drivers.

 

You could try a different USB port, preferably on on the back.

 

 

My computer is faster in every way except our GPU is the same.  Yes I am copying from and to a SSD.  Are the USB drivers just in the Windows settings somewhere if they did need a update?

[mariushm]

Your USB port is running at usb 2.0 speeds. Make sure you're inserting the usb stick into a usb 3.0 port.

 

Why aren't you copying the files over the network?  Aren't both computers connected to a switch or router/modem with a bunch of ethernet ports?   Even if wireless, if both computers are connected to router, you can copy files between computers.  Just share the folder on one pc and the other pc can copy the files.

 

If you don't ... and If your computers have ethernet network cards, get a cheap gigabit network switch and connect your pc and your father's pc to the switch... a 5 port gigabit switch is 10-15$ ... you'll copy at 120MB/s 

You can even just connect a network cable between the computers, it would also work, but a switch is recommended.

 

You may have to temporarily set the IP addresses of each computer manually  (ex. 192.168.0.1 on one pc, 192.168.0.2 on 2nd pc, and subnet mask 255.255.255.0 on both PCs) or use "private ip addresses" feature in windows 10, and windows should set ip addresses automatically

 

[bmx6454]

the speed will always be quicker at the beginning because of the cache, and then slow down. the storage drive the pc is using is also a big factor, what storage drive is in his pc vs yours?

[Kilrah]

Any difference bwtween reading and writing to the stick?

Nearly all USB sticks other than the expensive SSD-based ones have garbage write performance of around what you see, they will however read much faster.