File transfer glitch.

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I copied a 16gig file across to mates USB stick yesterday but it was taking bloody ages to do it. After about 8gig I thought I would cancel and delete it and just move the file across as I had it in my head for some reason that it would be quicker. It even took about 20 minutes to delete the 8 gig from the stick,and still took at least an hour to move it, seems a bit odd to me. My system is USB2 and my mate told me his stick was also USB2. Now my reckoning would be roughly.

USB 1.1 should take 1hour 40 mins to copy

USB stick or USB port is USB 2.0 should take 2 mins to copy

USB stick or USB port is USB 3.0 should take 22 seconds to copy

System. Intel Core Extreme CPU-X9650@3.00GHz
8GB Ram
Win 7

Is there anything I can check to see what might be causing this to run slow? The only thing I can think of but not sure if it would make a difference is that my mates stick is 64gig none branded one which he paid £15 brand new :thinking:
Cheers for any help.
 
I'm not a comp expert, but my guess would be on his memory stick being the problem - I'm wondering if it is USB 2?

Do you have a memory stick you could try with the same transfer to check / compare ???
 
Cheap memory sticks are very very very slow.

Try copying the same file to a decent memory card via your card reader and see what happens.
 
andyred said:
I'm not a comp expert, but my guess would be on his memory stick being the problem - I'm wondering if it is USB 2?

Do you have a memory stick you could try with the same transfer to check / compare ???
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admirable said:
Cheap memory sticks are very very very slow.

Try copying the same file to a decent memory card via your card reader and see what happens.
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neil_g said:
what sort of transfer speeds were you getting?

have you got another USB device you can try and copy the same file to?
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Cheers guy`s, no I have not got a stick myself but might be able to get another one to try, never bothered with a card reader either. I think you may all be right that it could well be the stick.
 
The write performance of the flash in the USB stick is the limiting factor, definitely not the USB transfer speeds.
 
Windows 7 is still known to known to cause slow file transfer & deletion on certain machines. Microsoft still haven't fixed this issue and worse still they do not know what causes it.
Try copying the same file to the same memory stick on WinXP and you will see a huge difference in speed.
 
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