VERY Slow Transfer speeds to USB 3.0 Flash Drive

[Brandon_Byrnes]

So for some reason when using a certain USB 3.0 flash drive in any USB 3.0 port it is taking forever to transfer video files, it took 3.5 minutes to transfer a 178mb file. I have checkd and all drivers are updated I also made sure to set it so the port is always powered and doesn’t shut off when not in use. The drive is a 64GB flash drive and it has about 16GB of free space left. It is mostly taken up by pictures, I would say over 30,000 pictures on it. Am I correct in assuming it may be taking so long becuase it is having to find free space within those 30,000 pictures for the video file? Pictures transfer instantaneously tho.

[jmarket]

30,000 pictures in 3.5 minutes, nothing wrong with that. 30,000 smallish files will always take longer than big files. Plus the file format of the drive may also limit speed?

[Brandon_Byrnes]

oh, no. I meant just over time I have about 30,000 photos, but it seems like any single file over 15mb is taking forever. I tried to transfer a 178MB mp4 file and it took almost 4 mins, whereas on any other usb 3.0 drive it takes about 3 seconds. I did just optimize the drive for photos, but that was after I just did the transfer of the mp4 file. As for the USB drive format I have it a ntfs.

[jmarket]

If you are using that drive on Windows only systems then NTFS is OK, if using it on non windows systems then choose fat32.