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Kingston DataTraveler 16Gb pen drive - slow speed under Windows 7?
Dear SevenForums,
I recently bought a Kingston DataTraveler 16Gb Usb 2.0 pen drive and last night I tried timing some write speeds on it, as I thought it was kind of slow (real slow for my machine as a matter of fact).
Formatted it as NTFS, default unit allocation size, and tried copying a 7.06 GB file (single file) on it. Timed the run, took it 22min 11sec, on an average write speed of 6.5 MB/s (advertised 10 MB/s). Here's my full PC spec, I personally believe it is too slow, but please judge for yourselves
OS: Win7 32-bit (fresh install)
Motherboard: Gigabyte EX58-UD3R
CPU: Intel i7 920 @ 2.67 Ghz
RAM: 3GB @ 1333 Mhz
GPU: nVidia 8800GT
Storage: SSD OCZ Vertex 2 60GB (boot drive) + Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB 7200RPM (the drive I copied the file from)
Note: already tried re-formatting the drive and messing around with the 'Optimize for Better performance' setting under the Policies tab, (+ every other speed booster setting I knew of), but the 6.5 MB/s average was the best I could get from it.
I am also fully aware of Windows 7's problems in handling USB transfer rates, I have already patched to SP1 and running full updates.
Also, my friend's much older PC, running XP, seems to transfer to it a lot faster.
Thoughts?
Thanks.