USB Flash drive speed

**Hessah** · 09-28-2010, 01:14 AM

I'm looking at getting a 16GB USB flash drive.. and I know that the read/write speed of these memory sticks are all different..

I had a mini USB that's really slow when I copy a file onto it, so I'm trying to avoid doing that again..

So should I be looking for a memory stick that has a higher write speed? What's considered decent?

I gathered that most memory sticks could read at about 30MB/s and that's pretty good..

**Belaslav** · 09-28-2010, 05:12 AM

Yeah, you could say that ~30 MB/s is the common average. Plus there are other factors that could limit the writing speed as well, like the processor being busy with something else.

**Hessah** · 09-28-2010, 06:19 AM

But the write speed is often much slower than the read speed..

I've seen some going from about 4mb/s to 8mb/s.. (while read speed is still 30mb/s)

I wonder if it's coz I'm looking at those tiny flash drives that all the write speed seems so slow...

**Blaaaaaaaah** · 09-28-2010, 07:16 AM

There was a small paragraph about a USB 3.0 being released today, which is supposed to read data at 80mb/s and write data at 60mb/s. lolss

**Sparkeh** · 09-28-2010, 10:02 AM

USB 3.0? Haven't heard.

umm...when i copy files it goes slow when i close all background programs and everything running it goes fast. <- try that xD

**Hessah** · 09-28-2010, 10:12 AM

Yeah I've heard about the 3.0 but.. That would also mean I'll need to get a whole new computer xD

**Vasu** · 09-28-2010, 10:19 AM

Originally Posted by Hessah

Yeah I've heard about the 3.0 but.. That would also mean I'll need to get a whole new computer xD

Not really. Just a whole new motherboard, which would lead to a whole new processor, which could lead to incompatible RAM and GPUs... and so on...

**Hessah** · 09-28-2010, 10:25 AM

That sounds like a whole new computer minus a monitor and the mouse and keyboard to me.. xD

**Hraesvelg** · 09-28-2010, 07:24 PM

You could probably keep the case, too.