How to Speed up Data Transfer to/from a USB flash drive

You might have noticed slow copy speeds with some USB flash drives. There is a tweak which helps in increasing the speed or giving a speed boost to USB-based storage.

By enabling this tweak, the write caching option in windows will be enabled.

• Plug in your USB Drive.
• Then Open My Computer> right-click on your USB Drive >click Properties.
• Select your USB drive Under Hardwares and choose Properties.
• You will see a dialog box saying ” Optimize for quick removal”.This option is selected by default.
• Select “Optimize for Performance”option.
• Now, remove USB drive and plug it again.
• Copy some files from the drive to your system or vice-versa. You should be able to notice a slight improvement in data transfer

Word of Warning: If you decide to enable this option in Windows, make sure you use the safely remove hardware option in windows each time you remove the flash drive from Windows. If not, you might encounter errors with the drive. This tweak is not designed to give exceptional speed improvements, it will come in handy while copying a large chunk of files.