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    Slow USB Transfer Rate

    Discussion in 'Accessories' started by insanechinaman, Jan 3, 2010.

  1. insanechinaman

    insanechinaman Notebook Evangelist

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    My Kingston DataTraveler 8GB is being really slow recently. Like, 150kpbs slow. I recently formatted it, before however, it was very fast. Right now, even 15 mb files take forever to transfer.

    Anyone know what's the reason behind this?

    Edit: Also, it's fast for like, the first 3 seconds, and then it stops, and goes to a crawl.
     
    insanechinaman, Jan 3, 2010
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    Anyone help?
     
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    When you formatted it, what settings did you use? (File System, Allocation Unit Size, Quick Format/Normal Format)
     
    Shadows1990, Jan 3, 2010
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  4. insanechinaman

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    NTFS, 4gigs, Quick Format (Normal format doesn't work for some reason, it fails at the very end)
     
    insanechinaman, Jan 3, 2010
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    Formatting is always real real slow.
     
    surfasb, Jan 3, 2010
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  6. insanechinaman

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    No the data transfer rate after the format is slow, not the format itself.
     
    insanechinaman, Jan 3, 2010
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    sounds suspicious, nomal full format should always work. maybe its failing. have you tried another disk manager program to format it (acronis or partition magic) or the ''HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool''?
     
    gazzacbr, Jan 3, 2010
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  8. DetlevCM

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    NTFS on a Flash drive? That might be your cause.
    Try FAT or exFAT (exFAT might not work on all OSes though... Vista and Win7 should support it fully)
     
    DetlevCM, Jan 4, 2010
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