How to Increase Pendrive Data Transfer Speed

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We are all using a pen drive to store the data. It is an essential one in now a days. Some pen drives data transfer speed might low. Data transfer rate depends on many factors. If you send videos or music the transfer speed is high compared to application files and exec files. Also if you are using the old pen drive, your data transfer rate is low. Nowadays all the pen drive is 2.o device if you use it 1.1 old computer USB port version the data transfer is very small. By changing some default settings, we can increase the speed of data transmission speed. Let’s see How to Increase Pendrive-Data Transfer Speed.

METHODS TO INCREASE DATA-TRANSFER SPEED

ALWAYS USE NTFS FILE SYSTEM

We can’t send larger files (4GB) if the pen drives not in the NTFS mode. So right click on the pen drive and click on format and select NTFS and don’t use the quick format. Using this settings format your pen drive.

CHECK FOR DISK ERRORS

Right click on the pen drive and click on properties. Under the properties tab of pen drive click on Tools and then click on “check now” button under error checking the menu. Now click on START it takes some time to check the disk error depending on the file size and format.

CHANGING DEVICE POLICY

Right click on the pen drive and click on properties. Under Pendrive, properties tab click on Hardware select your USB device and click on properties a new window should pop up in that window click on change settings.

Now click the Policies tab. Then choose the Better Performance and click OK.

NOTE: If you Click better Performance you must always safely remove the Pendrive whenever you eject the pen drive. I recommend you to remove the Pendrive when it is not used.

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