The transferring speed is very important for Usb devices, especially when you need to transfer data regularly between the computer and the USB drive. It’s annoying if you have less time to wait for the transmission ends. No one want to wait ten minutes or more time for data transferring. Different USB device may have different speed, and the long time use will affect the speed. But we still can try to find ways to improve the performance of our USB device.
1. Disable the Quick removal feature
The quick removal feature is used by USB devices by default which will slow down the transfer speed of your flash drive. With this feature, you can disable write caching on the device in Windows, but you can disconnect the device safely using the safely remove hardware notification icon.
To disable this feature, you should open the Device manager. Expand the disk drives tree and find the drive’s icon, right-click to open the window. Click Policies tab in the window, and check the option of Better performance. Click Ok. But after you have chosen the Better performance, you must to remove the device from Windows before you unplug it. Or it will cause data loss or drive damage.
2. Change the file system
The file system used by your flash drive also affect the transfer speed. To improve the performance, you can format the USB drive and change the file system. Most of the USB drive use FAT file system, you can format it to NTFS file system.
3. Replace with a new one with better performance
You can replace the old one with a new one which has a improved USB interface and faster speed. If you have try to optimize it, but it does not work and still have a slow speed, replacing with a new one is the only option.
Before you format the flash drive, you need to back up all your data to other locations. And keep in mind to back up your data regularly is very necessary to secure your data.
How to recover data from USB drive?
USB drive is widely used by us, and at the same time, more and more data loss situations occurs on the USB drive. Even if you have killed the virus regularly, safely remove the device from computer, you still will have data loss on the drive. Of course, if you have backups, you can easily restore from the backups. While if you have no backups, you have to use the recovery tools. No all data loss situations can be solved. Any kind of data recovery software can only retrieve the data that have not been overwritten.
How can USB data recovery software retrieve data?
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