I don't know what happened or if it has always been this slow, but I have a Sony USM32W3 and it barely hits over 1MB/sec for a USB 3 drive?
Does anyone know how I can check if it is fake? I ran the h2wtest and it passes it. I remember it being really fast when I first got it though… Weird.
Are there any tips to revive the speeds or is it just broken? In general, what do you do with USB drives that seem too slow for usage? It was estimating 1 hour to transfer a 4GB file…
Should I Throw Away Slow USB Drives?
Maybe or put them in a pile from when someone wants to 'borrow' one and you know it'll never come back :)
Chuck it. The main reason performance would degrade is internally failing pages, anyhow.
Check your device manager to see if it is really operating at USB3.0 spec, as 1MB/sec is very low.
Like so many others, only throw them out if they have lots of private info on them. (only joking).
I keep them, you never know when they are useful- for example a host that boots from USB but the OS runs in RAM, for keeping configuration backups,
You can always use them to share files with people, physically.
Thumb drives
If they have the blue plastic inside the plug, they’re usb3 - keep
If they have the black Plastic - usb2 chuck
Spinners
Consolidate smaller sizes 500gb and 1Tb onto single bigger drives
Chuck the little ones out
any chance you are running them in a usb 2 only port or hub?
Ensure its formatted correctly
Fat32 4KB per sector
Unsuprisingly I tested it again today and it's back to normal… Weird.
I think could be failing though. I will probably use it give some documents to someone and then just let them keep it.
You can use it to create a Geocache. Note: Always use a secondary machine and be prepared to lose it from viruses/overvoltage killers.
USBs are notoriously unreliable and commonly fail over time.
tried formatting?
IT 101 is switch off and switch on again, so may help?
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