I have a 64GB isn flash drive that I use. It’s getting terribly slow with about 1GB of data on it. Slowness is in reading and writing, especially backing up the data on the drive by copying the files to my computer.

The way I use the drive:
- I store word files, excel files, PDF files, txt files, and saved webpages (htm, css, gif, etc.)
- I organize files in the drive in tiers of folders. Some folders go 7 or 8 layers deep.
- saved webpages are automatically stored with an htm file and an accompanying folder with lots of small files (I don’t control that)

I believe the issue is with having lots of small files, and perhaps also with lots of folders? Or does the number of folders have a significant impact? The drive itself isn’t faulty, same data backed up to another drive behaves the same.

Any ways to improve this? If 1GB is an issue, I’m worried about when I get to 10GB, 50GB, and so on. I’d get a USB-C drive, but work computers don’t use them and my desktop and laptop don’t have it, so pointless for now.

This post was edited by Canadian_Man on Aug 31 2018 12:45pm

Well, you can find out for yourself.

Just copy the whole 1GB worth of files to your comp's hard drive in one giant chunk. You could then copy the big file back again.



/e Or just create a large file out of a bunch of smaller ones. Copy them both to the USB stick, one in pieces and one in one giant file. See which is faster.

This post was edited by Ghot on Aug 31 2018 01:17pm