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Why is my USB 2.0 vs. 3.0 performance the same?
I created a USB Recovery Drive on a friends ACER Aspire ES1-533-C55P Windows 10 laptop with a 3.0 flash drive that includes Backup system files. The computer was purchased about 3 months ago.
At first I connected the 3.0 flash drive to a USB 2.0 connector on the right side of the laptop: it two 2 hours.
Then connected that same 3.0 flash drive to a 3.0 connector on the back of the laptop: it still took two hours.
According to this article, neither 2.0 or 3.0 USB Flash drives even come close to their advertised speed; however, it does summarize that USB 3.0 reliably comes in at speeds nearly three times as fast as USB 2.0.
USB 3.0 speed: real and imagined | PCWorld
--- If that is true, my experiment shouldn't have shown the same time to do the same job: if my math is correct the 3.0 should have taken about 40 minutes.
--- Any ideas why their performances don't match up with their relative expectations?