How to Increase Data Transfer Speed of Your PEN Drive

Which one is your favorite method of transferring data from one source to another?
I don’t think to show you options, definitely you’ll select USB pen drive. Correct?USB pen drives are widely used for quick data transfer because it makes easier to copy and paste data from one computer to another. In the future, there may be another device to transfer data. But at the present time USB pen drives are much popular among us. But sometimes, It might be painful when these drive performs slow. There are many factors for the slow performance of the pen drives. I am trying here to explain with solutions.

Factors of Slow Pen Drives Performance

1. USB Port Version

This is one of the strongest reason for slow pen drives.

USB Versions and data transfer speeds
USB 1.1	1.5 MB/s	1^st Generation
USB 2.0	60 MB/s	2^nd Generation
USB 3.0	625 MB/s	3^rd Generation

So for faster speed, we need to use USB 3.0, this is the latest version of pen drives.

2. Type of Files

Data transfer rate depends on types of files that you are transferring. Files like Songs, Docs, Videos can be transferred quickly.

3. Aging of the Pen-drive

This is a very common reason for any device. New devices work sharply.

These were the real factors which are root cause of slow pen-drive. So what’s the solution?

Learn: How to Speed Up Your Pen drive for faster Data Transfer

1. Always Select NTFS File System

It’s the most important thing to do to speed up your pen drive. For doing this,

&g;t; just right click on pen drive

&g;

t; and click on format and under file system (Please take a backup before formatting).

> Now select NTFS

We are changing the file system to NTFS because FAT 32 can not handle large files(more than 4GB) data.

2. Changing Device Policy

Under pen drive properties tab click on hardware select your USB device and click on Properties a new window should pop up in that window click on change Settings.

Now Again

> Goto Your Pen drive Properties

> click on Hardware Tab.

> Select your USB device from the list and click on Properties.

> Now move on to the policies tab and check better performance and at least click on OK.

Suggestion: After changing the device policy and check on better performance then you must always eject your pen drive only after clicking on safely remove your USB option in task bar and it is always recommended to remove the pen drive from USB port when it is not in use.

3. Check For Disk ERoors

Under the properties tab of pen drive

> click on tools and

> Now click on “check-now” button

> Under error checking menu, just click on check now button

> and a pop up will appear, now start the scan to fix errors if any.

it may take some time depending on the size on pen drive.

Now you can speed up your pen drive without changing it to new. Try these steps, which are discussed here. Do let me know, If you have any other suggestion for the same or contact me if you face any problem, while following the steps of “How to Increase Data Transfer Speed of Your PEN Drive”. So enjoy the trick and share your experience with others.

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