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Will using a usb3 gen2 thumb drive on a pc result in quicker transfer
Can a laptop with usb3 ports utilize a usb3 generation 2 thumb drive.
If so will the file transfer rate be done in half the time?
Will using a usb3 gen2 thumb drive on a pc result in quicker transfer
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Yes. USB 3.1 gen 2 is backwards compatible with USB 3.1 gen 1, which is the same as USB 3.0.
However, USB is only the interface. The actual file transfer speed will almost always be limited by the speed of the storage medium (e.g. flash or hard drive). You can get cheap USB3 flash drives that are slower than USB2 drives.
You have to get into the high-end USB SSDs (like the SanDisk 900) before you see a difference between gen 1 and gen 2 transfer speeds.
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Thanks for your reply...Do USB 3 gen2 thumb drives exist?
Amazon only lists one
Would such a thumb drive theoretically double the transfer speed of files from a 3.1 gen 1??
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You can get up to the theoretical bandwidth limit of USB3.0 if your storage media controller and your USB controller driver supports UASP.
I get full read an write speeds of my Samsung SSD stuck in an USB enclosure with UASP support. Read speeds are about 500MB/s and write about 400MB/s which is the same as used in a SATA3 port. :)
For thumb drives, you won't see much of difference unless it's using NVMe technology internally or you use a device that has several SSDs put in RAID. But then again that is not a thumb-drive anymore.
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