I have a Sandisk cruzer 2GB flash drive and only recently have i noticed that the file transfer to/from the drive is really slow. usually it takes only a minute or so to copy a 1-2GB file, but as I am writing this in the background it is taking over 8 minutes to copy only a 126MB folder (the folder does contain over 1000 files, but that shouldn’t matter right?). Deleting and/or copying files from the flash drive takes a long time also. It has only been like this for a week or so, and I didn’t do any major updates to my computer that may have changed this. There may have been an auto update from Windows sometime between when it was OK and now, but not 100% sure. Any suggestions on how to get my transfer speed back to what it used to be?
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At the bottom of this screen, click the “Change Settings” button. Click the “Policies” tab. Now click the “Better Performance” radio button and click “OK”.
This enables write caching on the thumb drive, but you MUST use Windows “Safely Remove Hardware” option (click the icon on the taskbar) whenever you take the thumb drive out or else you might lose data.
Mark