How to Increase Pendrive Data Transfer Speed
HOW TO INCREASE USB PENDRIVE DATA TRANSFER SPEED – BEST WAYS
As from the above reasons you can see that there are lot of different factors that determines the USB Pendrive data transfer speed and for these different factors we have different solutions or ways to increase USB Pendrive Data Transfer Speed that you can find below.
METHOD 1 – CHANGE THE FILE SYSTEM OF PENDRIVE
Changing the File System of Pendrive from “FAT-32″ to “NTFS” directly affects the pendrive overall data transfer speed.NTFS Mode helps in achieving faster and reliable data transfer speed as compared to FAT-32 because FAT 32 cannot handle large amounts of data. To change the file system from “FAT-32″ to “NTFS” follow the below given steps.
- Connect your pendrive to your System
- Right Click on Pendrive -> Select Format
- Change the File System from “FAT-32″ to “NTFS” as shown below.
- Check mark the Quick Format Option -> Click on Start
- That’s all and now you can enjoy faster data transfer speeds.
METHOD 2 – CHECK PENDRIVE FOR ERRORS
It is often recommended to check pendrive for errors this will help in rectifying the bad data sectors thereby increasing the USB Pendrive data transfer speeds.
- Connect your pendrive to your System
- Right Click on Pendrive -> Select Properties
- Navigate to Tools -> Here Under Error-Checking -> Click on Check Now
- That’s all and now you can enjoy faster data transfer speeds.
METHOD 3 – CHANGING DEVICE POLICIES
Changing the removal policy from Quick Removal to Better performance yields better data transfer speed but also puts your pendrive at damage risk so it all depends upon you whether to try or not though I have been using the for all my pendrives from last few years and never faced any issue thus far.
- Connect your pendrive to your System
- Right Click on Pendrive -> Select Properties
- Select Hardware Tab -> Under All Disk Drives select the USB Pendrive -> Click on Properties
- Navigate to Policies Tab and Change removal policy from Quick Removal to Better performance -> Enable Write-Caching Policy
- That’s all and now you can enjoy faster data transfer speeds.
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