USB 3.0 very slow write speeds

danneh02

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Dec 17, 2013
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I'm currently transferring a 5.5gb file to my USB 3.0 memory stick - 'Integral 32GB Courier USB 3.0 Flash Drive' and the data transfer at around 650 kb/s.. http://i.imgur.com/WKA3Kt2.png

The motherboard I have is an Asus P8Z77-V LX Z77 which has 2x USB 3.0 ports on the back, the blue ones. The stick also has a blue USB port.

The drivers for everything are around a month old and it registers as having USB 3.0 in the device manager and when the stick was plugged in. Yet the write speed is so slow? Any ideas?
 

InvalidError

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You are copying over 60 000 files with an average size under 100KB. If your source drive is a HDD, the HDD's access time is killing your copying speed and this is normal.

If you want to see how quickly you can write to your USB drive, try copying a 1GB file to it.