You might have noticed slow copy speeds with some pen drives. Here is a tweak which help in increasing the speed or giving a speed boost to your pendrive.
By enabling this tweak, the write caching option in windows will be enabled.
- Plug in your USB Drive.
- Then Open My Computer> right-click on your USB Drive >click Properties.
- Select your USB drive Under Hardwares and choose Properties.
- You will see a dialog box saying ” Optimize for quick removal”.This option is selected by default.
- Select “Optimize for Performance”option.
- Now, remove USB drive and plug it again.
- Copy some files from the drive to your system or vice-versa. You can notice the speed increase.
After enabling this option in windows, make sure you use the Safely remove hardware option in windows each time you remove the removable drive from windows otherwise you might encounter errors with the pendrive. Though the tweak might not give exceptional speed boost to your usb drive but it will come in handy while copying large files.
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Hello,
great info! But I’m a bit worried about that last line. Could you explain why this trick will create write errors? How is the copying process affected? Thanks!
@roberto
ThePerformance option will enable the write caching feature in windows. When this feature is turned on windows itself notifies in there to remove the device only by using the safely remove hardware option. As the data is being directly written into the pendrive the write speed gets enhanced than the normal, but it may cause write errors if the pendrive is removed directly.
I think what Roberto meant to ask is: what are these write errors? What are they bad for? How to see them? How to get rid of them? Do they occur only when copying to the drive or even when it’s idle? … That sort of thing :)
These type of errors occur if the pendrive is damaged or if you haven’t plugged in the pendrive correctly.
After this setting is enabled, using "Safely Remave Hardware" is must, otherwise you will get write error. If your computer is not shut down properly then also you will get wrie error.
“Optimize for quick removal” option saves time using "Safely Remave Hardware". You can simply unplug your pendrive and you will not receive any error.
Thanks!!!! from 3.1mb to 12.5mb