Slow transfer speeds to USB 2.0 flash drive

Cody,

Have you or anyone in your community figured out why USB and hard drive transfer rates are slow in 7 compared to XP.  My Dell Studio 1735 has a 4 GB ram and 2.1GHz Dual core.  With two hard drive bays, I installed XP pro on one and 7 Ultimate rumah dijual x64 on the other.

The 7 had rates ranging from 466Kb /s to 8 Mb /s  (up to 25 Mb /s when transferring to 2nd hard drive).

The XP ranged from 5Mb /s to 20+Mb /s (up to 40Mb /s when transferring to 2nd hard drive).

After searching online, I see this is a common issue with Vista / 7.

Any reason why this is?  Or suggestions to increase the USB transfer?

Hi I usually use tune up utility from windows to increase the file transfer, here you can improve computer performance and choice specific area like usb

Cody,

You can search for slow USB speed and get tons of results.  I have the same problem with Win 7 ultimate.   While I had both windows 7 and windows XP installed on my machine, XP copied to USB flash drives more than 10 times faster, especially copying large directory structures.   Speeds grind down to 1mb-3mb/sec in Windows 7 and XP, on the same machine using the same ports, gets between 25mb-40mb/sec.   

I removed Windows XP a few months ago, so now I boot Linux Mint, when I need to copy  a large directory to a flash drive.  Its so much faster to boot from Mint, do the copy, then boot back to Windows 7, when I have a large amount to copy.

I have had this problem even after reloading Windows 7 from scratch.  All updates are installed and all drivers as current.  I also upgraded to a newer mobo and faster CPU and I still have the same problem with Windows 7 flash drive copy.  USB Hard drives seem to work OK. 

If you think 4mb/sec is normal, then you might have a hardware problem.  Try downloading a Linux Mint DVD. (You can boot from the DVD) and try a large copy.  If you still only get 4mb/sec, I would try it on a different machine.

I am reluctant to perform this change as I often forget to perform that "remove safely" task.

It's the wanting the cake and eating it too sydrome I know, but the only reason I hang off on applying this change is due to the fact that I have my laptop (originally with vista installed) but i purchased an additional SSD and now have dual-boot and my main on my SSD is now Windows 7.

Using the same USB stick on both my desktop and laptop and using the same file I notice speeds of approx.

Desktop: 4-5 MB/s (on a file of 1GB)- and yes if I click cancel it freezes on my system too

Laptop : 12-20 MB/s

I have verified that my Policies tabs are identical, that is to say my laptop is not set to Performance settings and still achieves the desired speeds without having to worry about disconnecting properly. How can I replicate these speeds on my desktop (more powerful) without sacrificing ease of use?

I have deduced that my drivers are up-to-date of coarse.

I have the same problem on high end laptop G73S with win7 - very very slow usb speed and card reader too.

8GB pendrive took me about 15min. to format where on my old laptop with windows xp i took 5sec. !

This is some marketing bullshit from meldoshet so you want to switch to "new" shitty 8.

I am switching to linux. bye bye scammers from maldosoft or whatever you call this scam.

Sorry, I should have typed "30-40mb sec" for the Linux speed.   I have since updated mother boards and still have the same problem with Win 7 Ultimte.  I also tried the performance setting on the USB stick's device properties, but that didn't make much difference.