How to Increase Data Transmission Speed of your Pendrive

Pendrive, also known as USB Flash Drive is a most essential one in now a days. USB flash drives are typically rewritable, removable and much smaller than an Optical Disc. Most weigh less than 30 grams. As Pendrives don’t have any moving part so they are smaller, faster, durable and reliable. 

USB flash drives are often used for the same purpose for which floppy disks or CDs were used, i.e., for storage, data backup and transfer of computer files.

Some Pendrive’s data transfer speed is very low which depends on many factors. If you copy videos or music to the Pendrive, the data transfer speed is high compared to application and exe files. Also if you use older Pendrive your data transfer is low because now a days we use USB 3.0 or 2.0 version Pendrive but earlier it wasn’t.

Somehow we can increase the speed of data transmission by changing some default settings.

Let’s  see,                                                                            

Methods for increasing Data-Transfer speed :

Always use NTFS file system:

We can send large files (more than 4GB) only when Pendrive is in NTFS mode. To enable this mode right click on the pendrive and click on format, select NTFS, uncheck Quick Format and then click Start.

Check for Disk Errors:

Right click on the Pendrive and choose the option Properties. Under the properties tab click on Tools and click on the Check now button. After that click on Start, it takes some time to check errors.

Changing Device Policy:

Right click on the Pendrive and click on Properties, under properties tab click on Hardware, select your USB Drive and click on properties. A new window will pop up in that click on Change Settings. Now click on the Policies tab and select the Better Performance and click OK.

NOTE : If you choose Better Performance you must always safely remove whenever you eject the Pendrive. Remove the Pendrive when it is not in use.