[PConline tips] Now the U disk and mobile hard disk capacity is getting larger and larger, although the speed of the USB interface has been far better than before, but if you want to copy a huge game movie, or some fragmented files, the transfer speed is still difficult to be satisfactory. As an old driver, the author has a lot of experience in resource copying, today I will share with you two methods that can make the speed of U disks and mobile hard disks soar, I hope to be useful to everyone!
Turn on high-performance mode
Many settings on the Windows system are very user-friendly, but they may not be suitable for you. For example, in the settings of USB sticks and removable hard disks, Windows will prioritize ensuring that the data is intact before considering performance. If you are sure that the USB connection is reliable enough, you can actually make the USB stick and the removable hard disk run in a higher speed mode through the following methods.
First, insert a USB flash drive, a removable hard disk, and then in "My Computer", right-click on the corresponding disk to enter the disk properties.
Then, switch to the "Hardware" tab, select the device corresponding to the USB stick and the removable hard disk, and then click "Properties" in the lower right corner.
After that, the properties window of the device will pop up, switch to the "General" item, click on "Change Settings".
Then in "Policy", select "Better performance". In this way, the write speed of USB sticks and removable hard disks will be improved!
Of course, there are also side effects to such a setup. If "Better performance" is selected, the Windows write caching feature is used, and if the connection is accidentally disconnected, the data may still stay in the cache and has not been written, resulting in data loss. Therefore, after enabling this feature, before unplugging the U disk and removing the hard disk, be sure to manually click the notification icon of the U disk to use the function of "safely deleting hardware" to ensure that the connection is safely disconnected.
Use FastCopy
This is an old software with a long history, and if you are a user who has been exposed to computers for a long time, you should have heard about it. In the era of Vista, when disk performance was strained, this was the best way to save files from pasting and copying. Until now, it can also increase the read and write speed of U disks and removable hard disks to a certain extent.
The use of FastCopy is very simple, after installation, the software can be used, or it can be used directly by right-clicking on the file. Once you've set the path you want to copy, click "Execute" and FastCopy will start working.
Compared to Windows' own copy-paste, FastCopy is faster. This is mainly due to the fact that FastCopy does not use the operating system's cache for data transfer, which makes its transfer process less susceptible to other running programs. If you use the system copy and paste, then the transfer process may be with the system to grab the cache, the speed is very unstable. In addition, FastCopy also has multi-threaded transfer and other technologies, which are of great benefit to improving the speed of file transfer.
Some users have measured that using FastCopy to transfer files, the overall speed can even be increased by 50%, which is very amazing.
Moreover, FastCopy can also implement more functions, such as you can customize the cache size, you can set the verification file after the transfer is completed, ensure that the transfer is not error-free, and so on. For transferring files in complex environments such as local area networks and USB, the advantages of FastCopy in terms of performance and reliability are obvious.
summary
Copy-pasting files is a very basic system feature, but Windows' conservative transfer strategy doesn't necessarily work for everyone. If you need a faster USB stick, portable hard disk transfer speed, you may wish to try the above method!