Pen drives or USB are quite popular in the digital world for instant transfer of data. Using USB flash drives, one can easily transfer large files from one PC to another, from PC to laptop, from laptop to TV, and vice versa. This latest technology has made our work easier than before. In current times, you can move Gigabytes of information into just a tiny pen drive within few seconds.
In recent years, a lot of changes has been made in storage devices. When you compare new pen drives with the older ones, you will notice a considerable high transfer rate in the latest ones. However, there are times when you can get irritated with slow transfer speed of pen drives while copying data in pen drives. Well, this article shall provide you with some tricks using which you can Speedup Pendrive Data Transfer Rate
Factors responsible for data transfer rate:
Before knowing the tricks, we shall have a look at some factors responsible for data transfer rate , and they are as follows.
1.Pen drive ageing: Well, this is common for any device that when it becomes old, the rates gets slower.
3.USB port version: The most popular version of USB is 2.0, and it will give you 35mbps speed. So, if you want fast speed then buy 2.0 version pen drives.
Few tricks to Speedup Pendrive Data Transfer Rate:
1.File system should be NTFS: If you want to Speedup Pendrive , then make sure you have NTFS as file system. You can do so by Right clicking on your pendrive and selecting Format,Select NTFS File system, Uncheck Quick Format And Click On Start.
2.Disk errors: To check disk errors go to the properties tab of your pen drive, then select ‘tools’ tab. You will find a ‘check now’ button, click it and then hit ‘start’ to fix the errors. The time taken for scan depends on the size of the pen drive.
3.Device policy: Under properties of your pen drive, select ‘hardware’ tab. Then select USB device from there that will lead you to a pop up window where you need to change settings. You can even have better performance of pen drive by clicking the option under ‘hardware’ tab.
4.Format: This is one of the effective options that many users have tried. When you have used your pen drive for quite a long time, you can speed it up by formatting the device.
Carefully test your pen drive with the factors given above to Speedup Pendrive. In addition to this, you should keep checking for these aspects regularly, say twice or thrice in a month.
Can I do the same in my Toshiba canvio basics 1tb external HDD ?
Awesome post.
Thank you ?
nice super cool tricks
thanks for this useful tips..
Nic
Very useful tips bro!
sir, tell me a trick so that i can make my pen drive to act as a hard drive.. plz mail me that trick.. plzz
ur pendrive file system may have been changed to RAW which is a very serious problem. Same was happened with my transcend 32gb sd card. I had tried everything even the least possible method but no solution I got even if you get the best software there is hardly any chance of getting the space back..
for ur satisfaction u may try swiss knife premium…if also using this nothing happens then if ur pendrive is in warranty period then get it replaced
thanks bro, let me try this one too if anythin happnd.
my pendrive is out of warrant. i guess there is nun othr option execpt through it in trash.
anyway thanks again
my pen drive is not formating. i hv tried many times. nd used many othr software to format.
plz help its says protected
My sandisk 16 gb pen drive pops up as Local Disk instead of Removable Disk. Can I change it ? if yes, How? Does it make any difference in speed of data transfer? do mail me plzzz…
my mail id is : jigar.joshi033@gmail.com
My pendrive asking to format it but if have my imp thing in it so what can i do for it pls can anybody help me
i have a issue in my toshiba 8GB pen drive when i formatted it………it shows 4MB as the total space in it so please help me out
i have tried using the following:
* format hp pen drive
* partion magic & manager
* using cmd
nice bro
Thanks for sharing!
I Prefer NTFS Formatting to speed up my pen drive. Nice tricks and thanks for sharing :)
usefull information thank you….
Very useful tips bro!
Tell me trick to make pendriv as a logical drive..