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I have an Asus Sabertooth z97 Mark 1 mobo with an i5-46770 and a 8gb DDR3 1866mhz RAM, OS is Windows 8.1 (fresh install).

I noticed that my transfer rate to USB is below 10MB/s, I think I should get above more than that (correct me if I'm wrong). I tried all USB ports, even the 2 two ports on PC case has the same transfer speed. The components is very new (3 weeks old). I suspect a driver issue but I already installed all the drivers I can get on Asus website and I'm still having the problem.

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No matter how fast the USB transfer rate is on the actual connection, the flashdrive writes and "stores" the data slower than the transfer, so that means the speed of USB 3 is useless if you are using slower drives.
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Both USB 2 and 3. And both have transfer speed rate.

internal HDD to USB. The HDD is 1TB Seagate Barracuda. Whether it is a video, pictures or files, I'm getting a same speed.
 
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Are you sure?

But USB to HDD is faster, usually starts with over 900MB/s and goes down to 26MB/s average.

And plus, isn't USB 3.0 should be at least little faster than USB 2.0? But on my system, both have the same speed.
 
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No matter how fast the USB transfer rate is on the actual connection, the flashdrive writes and "stores" the data slower than the transfer, so that means the speed of USB 3 is useless if you are using slower drives.
 
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What do you mean by slower drives? Sorry man, I know little about hardwares and drivers. I'm only using the ports on MoBo.
 
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OK let me explain from scratch.

You have 3 important factors when copying or writing any sort of data.

1. Transfer speed. (this is USB 2 or 3 for example)
2. Read speed. (the read speed of storage device you are copying FROM, like HDD or SSD or whatever)
3. Write speed. (the write speed of the storage device you are copying TO, like a USB thumbdrive, also known as a USB flashdrive).



So lets look at each.

1. USB 2 and USB 3 has A LOT faster than the speed you are getting.
2. Read speeds on conventional hard drives are ALSO faster than 10Mbps.
3. USB flashdrives write very slowly as they have very low cost components(like controllers and flash quality).

So that means you are copying slowly TO the USB flashdrive because it can only "store" or write the information at 10Mbps.
 
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I see. Well, I'm using a crappy flash drives anyway :D. If I have a branded, for example an external HDD (WD, Samsung) and still getting the same transfer speed (10MB/s). It is safe to worry, right? I'm asking this for the future :D
 
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Correct. An external HDD would be much faster.

Probably around 40Mbps depending on the HDD and interface.
 
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