On Sun, 27 May 2018 11:21:46 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

Scott wrote:

Two different USB sticks, both 16GB and both formatted NTFS. One
writes about three or four times as fast as the other, using the same
files. Any ideas? Could this mean the very slow one is on its way
out, and is there a way of testing it?

Oh, you want peer analysis of UNIDENTIFIED brands and models of USB
flash memory. Uh huh.

I am glad you have recognised this is difference between brands, from
the limited information. I thought there might be other factors, such
as age or variability.

If it helps, the faster one is a Kingston Data Traveler 16GB. The
slower one is a Toshiba TransMemory 16GB. Any analysis appreciated.