Flash Drive Speed

I have a Corsair Flash Voyager pen drive that I installed the W7 setup files on, before my DVDs arrived. I used it to install the RTM on my primary rig, and just a couple of days ago, I tried using it again on my secondary rig, but both times the screen where is says that it is loading Windows files moved like a sick snail across the screen. I thought that it would be faster than the DVD, but that definitely is not the case. I'm going to delete the files on it, to use it for general purposes, but it's performance has me wondering if there is something wrong with the drive, or if it's behavior is typical?

2.0 is enabled and at High Speed, so that shouldn't be the issue. I was just thinking of deleting the files on it, but it would be just as easy to reformat, so I try that. I know about the file size limitation of FAT32, but is there any kind of problem with formatting it NTSF? The reason that I ask, is because I understand that FAT32 is generally used on flash drives, but a 4GB limit kind of restricts how I might want to use the drive.

When I initially created the Windows 7 key on the drive, I used the Microsoft USB/DVD Tool to do so. I don't remember now, but I imagine that it used NTSF to do so. That may be the reason for the speed issue...I don't know. Why is FAT32 preferred for thumb drives...is it a speed factor?

That is the point, with the way that it performs now, I do not want to use it as an installation drive. I'm not certain exactly how I will use it, but it may just become an archive drive. Therefore, I'm interested in how FAT32 performs vs NTSF, without consideration of it's use as an installation drive.

Thanks, that was an interesting read, even though the writer's native language apparently isn't English, because his phraseology is often awkward, leaving a person guessing at his meaning at times. This is also complicated by the fact that his focus on files systems only targeted harddrives...not flash drives.

What he did say would lead one to think that NTSF would be the preferred FS for flash drives, but it isn't, so I'm still left scratching my head some.