but i need to ask it anyways. I have a 4 gig corsair flash voyager usb drive. i cant quite remember what the advertised read/write speed was, but i think it was like 13/11 mbps. What i cant figure out is why i can only transfer at 100 kbps (according to vista) i know things never reach their theoretical potential, but it takes half an hour to transfer 250 mb over. lame. this is a relatively new drive that has been reformatted. my computer is plenty fast, so that should not be the issue. oh and it is plugged directly into the back of my mobo. any suggestions, or am i just a n00b who doesnt know that this is the way its supposed to be?

You sure you're using USB2.0 connections?

Check if you have a bios option that allows full speed or high speed. If you have that option under usb in the bios change it to the oposite setting and see if that makes a difference... How did you format it? It should be fat not ntfs..

alright, to answer questions

yes it is fat32, and usb 2.0, no options pertaining to it in bios.

now, i was able to get much much better write times when the file was one large file (.rar) rather than a bunch of files. i'll live with it i think.

Quote: Originally Posted by Pod_Man alright, to answer questions yes it is fat32, and usb 2.0, no options pertaining to it in bios. now, i was able to get much much better write times when the file was one large file (.rar) rather than a bunch of files. i'll live with it i think.

If you are talking about getting really slow speeds trying to transfer a ton of small files then yeah that is normal. Think of it this way (not completely accurate, but good enough), when transferring files each file has to initialize before it can transfer. This only takes a short time for each file, but if you are transferring several hundred or thousand very small files then the initializing time may be close to or even longer than the transfer time itself, also there tends to be more communication in both directions in this case. When transferring one or a couple large files the initialization only happens a small number of times and the communication is almost all one direction which means bandwidth is just being used for the transfer
Best solution is what you did, rar or sip the files together and transfer as one large file then unrar when you want to use them.

S2S hit the nail directly on the head. (Stupid 24 hour rule rep is on the way soon).