How To Boost & Optimize Your Pen Drive Speed
If you have recently bought a flash drive or you have an old pen drive that is not working properly then increasing the speed of your pen drive can help you a bit in transferring your files form one place to another place. Storage devices are made to transfer files from one computer to another computer, from one device to another device. Lot of people have a complaint that rewritable storage devices such pen drive and memory cards becomes very slow after using it for a long time. If you rewrite in your pen drive more that hundreds or thousands of time then of course it becomes slower than the tortoise.
What Slows Down Your PenDrive Speed:
Those things that mainly responsible for your slow file transfer rate of your pen drive are,
- Multiple Rewrites: If you use your pen drive multiple times, you copy new files and erase old files then it can reduce your pen drive's effective file transfer rate.
- Adverse Environmental Conditions: Adverse environmental conditions such as extra heat or extra moisture can cause damage to your Thumb Drive's Hardware so it is recommended that you always store your pen drive at a safe place.
- Bad Voltage Supply: Extra voltage can cause damage to your pen drive so it is recommended that you should use your pen drive only when you think that the voltage coming outside the USB port is pure DC voltage and it should not be more than 5V.
- Bad Computer Speed: Make sure that the computer that you use to transfer files from your computer's hard drive to your pen drive is fast. Computer's speed depends on many factors such as CPU speed. Hard disk speed. Primary Memory etc. Make sure that your computer is fast enough to transfer files.
Some Useful Ways To Increase Your Pen Drive Speed
Defragmentation:
In the maintenance process, de fragmentation is the process that reduces the amount of fragmentation. The movement of read write heads used in hard disks over fragmented data is slower as compared to de fragmented storage space. So i is recommended that you should regularly de fragment your pen drive.
Disk defragmenter is free tool to defragment your pen drive in windows operating system. However you can also use this tool to defragment your computer's hard disk and other storage devices to boost their speed.
Changing Device Properties:
You can change your device properties to best performance it will give you little bit more speed than previous speed, but remember that when you use these settings you have to remove your pen drive safely or maybe there is a chance of loosing your data. It enables write caching in windows.
Format Your Pen Drive:
If above steps doesn't helped you to increase your pen drive speed then you can format your pen drive with default allocation unit size, file system and storage capacity to optimize its performance.
watch the video tutorial given below to know more. If the above steps doesn't helped you to boost your pen drive speed I think its the right time to purchase a new one :)
