Slow USB Sticks

[Killerbob]

Hi,

On my MP (early '08) 2.8/16GB I am having an issue I am not sure how to deal with:

I use a Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 8GB USB Stick, and whatever USB port on my MP I use, it is extremely ssllooww. We are talking 1-2MB/sec. (max.), and it is much much slower than on my PC Laptop. I copy a smallish 8MB file from my HD onto the stick, and it easily takes 15 seconds, including the "calculating remaining time."

Is this an MP issue, a Leopard problem, or an undocumented Apple feature?

KB

 

[Infrared]

Hi,

On my MP (early '08) 2.8/16GB I am having an issue I am not sure how to deal with:

I use a Kingston DataTraveler 2.0 8GB USB Stick, and whatever USB port on my MP I use, it is extremely ssllooww. We are talking 1-2MB/sec. (max.), and it is much much slower than on my PC Laptop. I copy a smallish 8MB file from my HD onto the stick, and it easily takes 15 seconds, including the "calculating remaining time."

Is this an MP issue, a Leopard problem, or an undocumented Apple feature?

KB

My USB stick works faster when formatted as HFS+. As FAT it's slowish.

 

[Genghis Khan]

funnily enough, i bought two kingston data travelers today (1GB + 4GB, for sister + i)...but only chose them because they were AU$30 all up

having researched them, I found they're at the bottom of kingston flash drive tree...their website specification table even says 'n/a' under 'transfer speed'

i knew it'd be slow, but had to get a flash drive cheap today for uni


anyway, i get about 5MB/s (even slower on windows)

and if you want speed, i recommend you look into patriot flash drives

 

[Infrared]

having researched them, I found they're at the bottom of kingston flash drive tree...their website specification table even says 'n/a' under 'transfer speed'

Nanobytes per age.

 

[Killerbob]

Funny enough - on my PCs this USB stick is really fast. I would guess 3-5 times faster. I tested it on a Windows XP SP2 IBM laptop, so it must be related to the MP.

 

[Mac_Max]

Did the keydrive come with some sort of Windows only data protection? The keydrive might have some sort of security feature that's looking for some Windows based software and thats slowing things down.

Unlikely, but still a possibility.