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Ridiculously slow USB stick
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 12:29 pm
by poehalcho
So a couple of years back I bought this 8GB usb stick. It's an ADATA S805. I haven't used it very often but I think in the past it worked fine. For a pretty long time now though it's transfer rate has been ridiculously slow. Right now I'm trying to put Heroes3 on it and it's transfering at a whopping 152KB per second.
So... does anyone have an idea what's wrong with it? How to fix it?
I tried a format yesterday and turned it into an NTFS system, but it doesn't seem to work much :/. Think I'll turn it back into a FAT32.
Re: Ridiculously slow USB stick
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 4:08 pm
by XMoshe
I have honestly no idea but buying a new 8gb one will cost you like 12 euro's lol o.O
Re: Ridiculously slow USB stick
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 4:28 pm
by Fireball
poehalcho wrote:Right now I'm trying to put Heroes3 on it and it's transfering at a whopping 152KB per second.
How fast can a USB stick be?
Re: Ridiculously slow USB stick
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 4:33 pm
by poehalcho
Standard transfer rate nowadays would be at least 10MB per second I believe (assuming usb2.0)
Re: Ridiculously slow USB stick
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 4:43 pm
by Fireball
Okay, Its pretty obvious. something is wrong with it!
Re: Ridiculously slow USB stick
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 4:52 pm
by poehalcho
Fireball wrote:Okay, Its pretty obvious. something is wrong with it!
no shit.
Re: Ridiculously slow USB stick
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 4:54 pm
by Fireball
poehalcho wrote:Fireball wrote:Okay, Its pretty obvious. something is wrong with it!
no shit.
Oh yes, but I dont know what. sorry
Re: Ridiculously slow USB stick
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:22 pm
by Razorhead
Either the flash memory or the usb connector is defective
No point in using it any further as it costs nearly nothing for a new USB stick