USB 2.0 file transfer speed?

Mr. Nunu,
what does "it depends on other factors" mean? Which ones (a list please) and how do they affect it? In what order do they affect it?

I know these factors, and I don't stay in the vague style "yes but there's something else, just do an internet search...". If someone wishes, I will provide the exact time taken for a given transfer.
Example
- I have a single 1-gigabyte file to transfer, I can do it in one minute on average.
- I have 20,000 files totaling 1 gigabyte, the transfer can take 5,000 minutes!!!

hence a ratio of 1 to 5000!!!

Your hard drive is down, man, it happens (but still, what a bummer ^^ ))

Bring it back hoping you have everything you need for the warranty.

The USB hub on the front of your monitor is likely to be USB 1.0 rather than 2.0. Try connecting directly instead...

Yes, you plug it behind the USB port next to where you connect the RJ45 cable (internet), and it should normally be direct, meaning it's connected directly to your motherboard. There’s a program to slightly increase the speed as well, but I can't remember the name of the program, so do a quick search online at worst...

The only way, the only way to transfer at ultra-fast speeds that could be calculated in hundreds of minutes instead of hundreds of hours would be to install the USB hard drive internally inside the PC, thus removing the HDD from the external enclosure, installing it in the PC, and copying from SATA to SATA; the transfer will occur at gigabytes per second rather than kilobytes per second.

That's it! Throw away your PC, get a Mac with FireWire 800 and then you'll see what a real machine is!!!

I usually get 250MB/s on USB :D

But it's rarely 60 MB/sec for USB 2.0 flash drives; the speed is usually:
Transfer rate
The maximum transfer rate of the USB 2.0 standard is 480 Mbits/sec (60 MB/sec), which is 40 times the speed of USB 1.1. Currently, the average write transfer speed of USB 2.0 flash drives is 8 MB/sec
USB flash drives are generally supplied with a cable, installation software (for Windows 98SE), and a cord.


Applications
Storage, data transport (sound, images, texts...) and transfer to the computer in the blink of an eye.

Christian, USB1 is 12MBit/s, not 12Mo/s, 12Mbit/s = 1.5Mo/s
1 Byte = 1 Octet = 8 Bits

Well, I'll leave you with your gibberish!

Here's MY FACT


Me here, external 300GB ATA via USB 2

on a quad-core PC 2.6 GHz, 8 GB of RAM, Windows 64-bit Home Premium (NEW)

to an external 250GB SATA via USB 2

I'm running at 19 MB/s!!!

Seems to me that's slow!

You go directly to your motherboard output or to a switch, providing power and 12V on the front. The throughput is not the same; more than 60 MB/s does not offer the true value, as you need to account for parity bits (error checking). You also need to check the stability of your PC power supply (5.2V). 19 MB is good.

I'm getting 23MB/s on a crappy laptop with an Akasa case and a PATA drive inside.

Don't forget that the bandwidth of a USB channel is shared among all the devices it powers. If during the exchange you fiddle with your trackpad or plug in a USB stick or something else, those are just as many requests that will monopolize the channel and thus slow down the bandwidth. There's also disk fragmentation, which can be a lesser factor in slowing things down. In short, it's wise to be cautious when asking questions while asserting "I know these factors, and I'm not being vague" or when giving absolute answers.

It's annoying to read this kind of nonsense, it feels like being in a shower, competing for who has the biggest dick. What a waste of time reading you.... we want intelligent information.....

It's funny because you all talk about your theories of speed in USB 1/2/3 but you're not helping him with his problem. I have the same issue right now; I'm copying movies from my internal drive via the USB stick plugged in 2.0. I start the transfer at 45MB/s and within a minute, the transfer throttles to 5MB/s and after about 40 minutes to 3.75MB/s :/ can someone help me??