Hello all , can anyone help me here. i have a verbatim Store n Go Usb 3.0 Otg drive of 16gb capacity. When i am transferring files(currently video files) from my laptop to this drive i am getting speeds around 11-12 MB/s on usb 3.0 ports . Is'nt this slow for usb 3.0? i have a sandisk ultra usb 3.0 16gb drive(not an otg) which gives me 45-46 MB/s speed for same files and even my usb 2.0 drives are faster than this. Can anyone tell me why so? Are all otg drives slower compared to normal ?
Slow transfer speeds of verbatim otg drive
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WyomingKnott
Legenda in Aeternum
- Aug 29, 2006
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OTG drives are not slower than other drives, as a class. However, what I have found is that some drives are slow and some are fast. I spent some time benchmarking my own USB drives and found that I have USB 2.0 thumb drives that are faster than one of my USB 3.0 thumb drives; it's just a crummy drive on a USB 2.0 or 3.0 port.
I have two sets of USB 3.0 ports on my machine, one set from the motherboard and one from an add-in card. USB 2.0 drives run about the same speed on both; USB 3.0 drives run significantly faster on the add-in card.
So here's my guess. It's a slow drive. Just because it has a USB 3.0 interface doesn't mean it's fast; it may be just marketing hooey. Remember, all the HDDs these days come with SATA III interfaces even though they couldn't saturate SATA II; I think that's because it's cheaper to have only one kind of interface in stock rather than using one for HDDs and one for SSDs.
I suggest that you time the drive in question on USB 2.0 ports, and on 3.0 ports on another machine. If it's still slow, then it's just a slow drive.
I have two sets of USB 3.0 ports on my machine, one set from the motherboard and one from an add-in card. USB 2.0 drives run about the same speed on both; USB 3.0 drives run significantly faster on the add-in card.
So here's my guess. It's a slow drive. Just because it has a USB 3.0 interface doesn't mean it's fast; it may be just marketing hooey. Remember, all the HDDs these days come with SATA III interfaces even though they couldn't saturate SATA II; I think that's because it's cheaper to have only one kind of interface in stock rather than using one for HDDs and one for SSDs.
I suggest that you time the drive in question on USB 2.0 ports, and on 3.0 ports on another machine. If it's still slow, then it's just a slow drive.
thanks for reply mate. well i tried the drive on other machines as well and still the speeds are slow (on usb 2.0 it falls to 7-8 MB/s). the weird thing is that the transfer speeds starts at 50-60 MB/s but falls to 10-11 MB/s within 3-4 seconds. Could it be that the drive is faulty or something ? also is there a way to check the transfer speeds on my android phone ?
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