poor usb flash drive performance in 7?

Discussion in 'Windows 7' started by ricky05, Jul 25, 2009.

  1. ricky05

    ricky05 MDL Novice

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    I have noticed a severe lag in windows 7 when transferring files to usb flash drives. On my xp and vista partitions its perfect..but only in 7 do I have extreme lag. Anyone else notice this? Even just deleting files off USB flash drive takes foreverr.
     
  2. Sporkman

    Sporkman MDL Member

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    not here running 7 everything runs great
     
  3. sonyman

    sonyman MDL Novice

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    It could have to do with write-caching. Under Windows XP and Vista, did you have to choose the "safely remove" option before disconnecting the drive? If I'm not mistaken, Windows 7 optimizes removable devices for quick-removal by default, disabling write-caching. If you choose to optimize the drive for performance instead, performance should improve noticeably. I would also perform a reformat of the drive if you can incase there is something amiss with the MFT of the drive causing a slowdown.