Tips to Speed up USB Data Transfer Rate

If your system is running slow while you are transferring data from USB, then it may be due to the low data transmission rate of the USB. . You need not worry because by following the steps given below you can speed up your system by improving USB transfer rate.

Instructions

1. Don’t plug too many devices to a USB hub. A fact unknown to many users is that the total bandwidth is divided by a USB hub among all the devices plugged to it. If your system has more than one USB port then plug each individual device to each USB port rather than plugging all the peripherals to a one multi-port hub.
2. Get a USB cable that transfers data at a high speed say 480 megabits per second or 60 megabytes per second. Its length should be less than 7 feet, as shorter cable is a better one. In the longer cords, due to larger distance there will be more interference for the data.
3. If you system is busy because of the constantly incoming and outgoing information from its USB port, use your USB thumb drive or memory card as RAM by enabling the ReadyBoost feature , a page file that is temporary on your memory stick. It helps to enhance the memory of your system. However, you require a flash memory stick that can give high speed.
4. If you want to use your flash memory stick as a temporary RAM, plug it into the port of USB drive of your system. From the Start Menu, select ‘My Computer’ and then ‘Properties’. Here, select the tab ‘Ready Boost’. The higher you will set the value, the better it will be.
5. If your external hard drive is accessed by your system regularly, for improving the working of hard drive you have to enable right caching. For this, in the Start Menu, right click on the icon ‘Computer’ and from the drop down options, select ‘Properties’. In the Windows that opens, select ‘Device Manager’. On the folder tree look for and select your external hard drive. Now, select the ‘Properties’ and after this select ‘Disk Properties’.

If the box next to the ‘Write Cache Enabled’ is not checked then check it to enable it. Finally, click ‘OK’ to end the process.

These tips will definitely help you in speeding up your USB data transfer rate. If still you face problems call USB Data Transfer Services.