USB 2.0 slow copying speed

[officialglude12345]

Hello,

i have a Kingston 16GB flying horse limited edition USB 2.0
The speed is really slow, if i want to copy a file into the USB the top speed is only around 3mbps

Copying from USB to hard drive is 16mbps which is fine by me
Here's my laptop specs
AMD e2-2000 1.7Ghz CPU
AMD HD Graphics 7340
Windows 8
4 GB ram (3.6 usable)
Hard drive : Hitachi HTS543232A7A382

Is it my laptop or my USB that is having problems?
Also any ideas how to speed it up?

 

[assasin32]

Benchmark the USB stick and see what the read/write speed it. You may just have one with a slow write speed.