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    Buffalo Tools Software increases speed of USB 2.0 copy by 40% ???

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Rogue Tardis, Jul 20, 2010.

  1. Rogue Tardis

    Rogue Tardis Notebook Geek

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    There is a software called Buffalo Tools from Buffalo Technologies ...

    It comprises of Turbo PC, Turbo Copy etc ...

    There are reviews of this software and it states that it increases the speed of normal USB 2.0 transfers by about 40 % ...

    It is software based and works on all types of usb 2.0 drives ...

    Has anyone verified this ???

    :confused:

    :eek:
     
    Rogue Tardis, Jul 20, 2010
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  2. TANWare

    TANWare Just This Side of Senile, I think. Super Moderator

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    About the only way to speed USB drives is to compress them. Essentially then as you write the data of say 100 megs it i compressed to 60 megs and you get a raw data throughput increase of 40%. The data rate has not increased just the efficiency of the storage medium.

    The only other way is by getting say more of the bus bandwidth to the device. The port's are bandwidth shared so you may realize slightly more speed by doing this. I am not sure about 40% doing this though.........
     
    TANWare, Jul 21, 2010
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  3. Pitabred

    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    It may also just increase the cache, so when it says it's done writing it's not actually done, it's just copied the files to RAM to be written to the drive. There's really no way to significantly honestly speed up writes to USB devices over what's currently happening, it's just a limitation of the USB2 specifications.
     
    Pitabred, Jul 21, 2010
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