On 27-May-2018, 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?

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


Kingston stick is USB 3.0. Theoretical speed of up to 5Gbits/second.
Toshiba stick is USB 2.0 Theoretical speed of 480mbits/ second.

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