Very slow USB transfer rate on win 7 64 bit

Hello
I'm using win7 for a while and i never noticed the transfer speed of usb bcoz i've never transfer a huge files before. The transfer speed is only between 3-4 Mbps and nothing more. Ubuntu atleast gives me 7-10Mbps. Recently I transfered 400 MB folder and it took 30 - 40 min at the rate of 250kbps. The 400MB folder was my XAMPP folder which contains multiple files.
I got pretty frustrated at this. Please help me find a solution to this . The other day i was late to office bcoz of this , it took 40 min as described above.
please provide some insight to this. I'm expecting at least 15-20 Mbps

Thanks In Advance

What device are you transferring from and to?

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/10392-write-caching-enable-disable.html

Regards....Mike Connor

i'm sorry i was in a hurry.
To a Usb drive. kingston 2Gb

My sys configurations
AMD athlon ll X4 635 2.9Ghz
2GB ram
Win 7 64

Format your USB Drive to NTFS with 8192 bytes of assignation, after the format, go to Device Manager, open hard disks, right-click your USB drive and go to Properties, the 2nd tab to the right (from your left), should say "Directives" (sorry about that, i have a spanish version of Windows 7) and check the "High Performance" module.

That will solve your problem

You should probably try to find the specs for your drive.
I just researched a Kingston Data Traveler 2 Gb USB Drive.......Data transfer rates of up 6MB/sec. read and up to 3MB/sec write.

Try what Punkster and Mike mentioned, but most importantly look for the data transfer specs.
15-20 Mbps may be unrealistic on some drives.

p5bdkw said:

You should probably try to find the specs for your drive.
I just researched a Kingston Data Traveler 2 Gb USB Drive.......Data transfer rates of up 6MB/sec. read and up to 3MB/sec write.

Try what Punkster and Mike mentioned, but most importantly look for the data transfer specs.
15-20 Mbps may be unrealistic on some drives.

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Didn't think about that, P5! you're completely right, but the method of NTFS formatting and High Performance Directive will give the USB a really good improvement, that's how i have all my USB's and they work just fine.. 2GB files and only takes a couple of minutes...

But you'll never get higher speeds than advertised from the manufacturer, you'll only get "close enough" heheh

Two days ago, I bought a 64 GB Sandisk flash drive to use for copying my Windows 7 Qozmio 770 series 64-bit laptop files onto for backup purposes and to load onto an old second computer. I had originally purchased the 16 GB model, but a Tom's Hardware review convinced me to get the 64 GB model for its transfer speed.

I think I may have deleted the .exe file (Secure Access??) because I'd been told to do that if I didn't want the flash drive to do automatic stuff; or else it wasn't there to begin with (it's referenced in the manual).

I started to copy my 3 GB Documents folder, consisting of 35,000 files (16XX folders). The first few minutes looked normal; then the speed steadily dropped into the KB range, where it remained. I canceled the operation.

Because I had never copied the full documents folder from my laptop onto a flash drive (the full folder was only on my desktop until recently--I don't recall how long it took to load it onto my laptop from my WD external HD.)

I tested two flash drives and all three in different ports, 2.0 and 3.0, and the results were the same, with transfer speeds reaching a high of 1 MB/sec. Optimization for documents didn't help. Downloading a Toshiba USB driver didn't help. I've read that a 16 GB works better for small files than a 64 GB does, but my older flash drive didn't transfer appreciably faster.

My laptop is almost 3 years old and out of warranty; phone support wants $49.95 to help me. Is there anything that I, a non-guru, could check? It appears not to be the flash drive, as I originally thought.

Down load and install USBDeview. This program allows you to do some basic trouble shooting. Make sure the USB 2&3 drivers are up to date.

Size does matter, generally larger is faster. With a system configured correctly even a 2-8gb class 4 SD card should move at 8-10Mbs in USB 2.0 and around 20Mbs in a USB 3.0 port. USB 3.0 pen drives are close to 200Mbs. These are bench test numbers, actual file transfer is slower.

The USB chip on your MB makes a difference. If you are going to be moving lots of files you may want to install a e-pci usb card with a better chip set.

madcratebuilder said:

Down load and install USBDeview. This program allows you to do some basic trouble shooting. Make sure the USB 2&3 drivers are up to date.

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How do I make sure the drivers are up to date? I have now found the USBDeview page and skimmed it, so I see that will at least list my drivers--don't know yet if they'll tell me if they are or aren't up to date. I'll install it.

The USB chip on your MB makes a difference. If you are going to be moving lots of files you may want to install a e-pci usb card with a better chip set.

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Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller - 1C26 PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C26&SUBSYS_FC301179&REV_04\3&11583659&0&E8
Intel(R) 6 Series/C200 Series Chipset Family USB Enhanced Host Controller - 1C2D PCI\VEN_8086&DEV_1C2D&SUBSYS_FC301179&REV_04\3&11583659&0&D0
Renesas Electronics USB 3.0 Host Controller PCI\VEN_1033&DEV_0194&SUBSYS_FC301179&REV_04\4&31F6DD7F&0&00E5

Chip sets are beyond my understanding. I don't know where to go from here. Also, in System Information, there is nothing listed under Ports: Serial, Parallel. It seems as if there should be, since I do have USB ports and they are working. Sort of . . .

Punkster said:

Format your USB Drive to NTFS with 8192 bytes of assignation, after the format, go to Device Manager, open hard disks, right-click your USB drive and go to Properties, the 2nd tab to the right (from your left), should say "Directives" (sorry about that, i have a spanish version of Windows 7) and check the "High Performance" module. That will solve your problem

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I read about formatting the USB drive to NTFS in a Sandisk forum discussing this same problem. I don't feel I know what I'm doing well enough to do such a thing.

Is tera copy software is useful for windows 8.1 user? i wanna boost my usb transfer speed i read an article on funops about how to boost up usb speed and they suggest teraCopy software to boost up transfer speed. i have watch many videos to see teracopy in real time and its look real but im still confuse. Also tell me any best youtube alternative in pakistan 2015 i really need it to listen music coz its blocked here.

In our case, using ASUS Z97-USB 3.1 series MOBOs and observing slow and slowing USB 3.0 file transfers, we found that reinstalling the USB Driver set (eHCI, xHCI), along with the Intel Rapid Storage driver, all found on the ASUS driver install CD, corrected our speed issues quite satisfactorily. We confirmed this on two separate devices that were built up independently, fully configured with Win7 Enterprise x64. Our SAT routines (site acceptance test) now include a USB 3.0 throughput verification and driver re-install if necessary. Our file transfer test was a 24GB file moving from onboard SATA HDD to external USB 3.0 HDD - the process improved from 45+mins to 3.5 mins.

Robocopy is built into win8 and thats very fast you can get a gui to make it simpler. What can effect speed is AV as it will often scan on read and then again on write depending on file types and can slow it to a crawl

USB 2.0 has a 480 M bits per second transfer rate, or 60 M Bytes per second transfer rate. I'm confident to say that the transfer rates you have aren't related to the USB port but to the media you're using. I have different USB flash drives. The fastest transfers at 28M/s and the slowest at 3.5M/s. So the transfer isn't related to the USB transfer speed but it is related to the media you have. Multiple files always takes longer than single files. And as mentioned, Anti virus will slow it even more. So I would disable AV and compress a folder with multiple fifes before transferring. Use Winrar, Winzip or 7-zip. Edit: I have a HDD USB 3.0 dock with a SATA 2 HDD. It begins with 220 b/s transfer rate (to disk ram cache) and slows down and stabilize at 35 b/s. The results are the same if I use USB 2.0 or USB 3.0 port. The bottle neck isn't the USB. The The bottle neck is the device (SATA 2 HDD).