Flash drive file transfer rate 1Mb/s

[emigrant]

hi all,
the transfer rate for my kingston 2.0 data traveller is only 1Mb/s.
how can i make it to 2Mb/s

thank you very much.

[jward3010]

Why do you just want to make it two, there is every chance it will go 20MB/s. Formatting the stick can surprisingly bring speed back. I highly recommend using a FAT32 filesystem. The easiest way is using Gparted, or if you're using 9.10 Karmic just right click on the stick and choose Format.

PLEASE BE WARNED: This deletes all data off the stick!!!

[emigrant]

The transfer rate is constant and is at 1020 Kb/s.
:(

[jward3010]

Most modern sticks will get speeds on average as follows:

Read: 10MB/s to 30MB/s
Write: 5MB/s to 12MB/s

Thats my experience. And it completely depends on file size. Putting a 700MB AVI file directly on (one continuous piece of data) will go quite quickly. Writing 1000 30KB files will be a different matter.

[jward3010]

I should also say, if a stick is on it's way to the grave it will slow down a lot. If you use the stick a lot that might be the cause, you may actually need a new one.