USB 3.0 Flash Drive recognized only as 2.0 High-Speed, not 3.0 SuperSpeed?

[enes2nd]

Hello!
I have a Toshiba Transmemory-MX 64 GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive that i am trying to use on my USB 3.0 ports on my PC. Now, i have a problem that i havent experienced before, and that is that the flash drive works fine on both the 2.0 ports and the 3.0, but the weird thing is that it wont be recognized as an USB 3.0 Flash Drive on any of my ports.
At first, i thought it was the ports that was the problem, so i tried another USB 3.0 HDD on one of my USB 3.0 ports, and it works perfectly and it is recognized as USB 3.0 SuperSpeed and the speed is as expected.

But the Flash Drive will only operate as USB 2.0 High-Speed, and how i know this is by comparing the speed, which is really low (around 5mb/s write and 10mb/s read) and also by using the software called USB Device Tree Viewer (which shows when a device and port is operating at 2.0 or 3.0).

I would also like to add that i have all the updated drivers for my PC. I have all the latest usb, chipset, bios etc drivers installed, so that is not the problem. The Flash Drive is completely new, just opened it and tried it for the first time. And as i said, other USB 3.0 devices works perfectly, just not the Flash Drive.

Any ideas people? I cant find a solution anywhere :/

 

[Custom Builder]

Keep in mind that You can only transfer as fast as the slowest device in the path, cables included. Ie - if you are transferring to/from a usb3 harddrive also attached to the computer but thru a usb2 cable you will never exceed usb2 speed.

What were you transferring to & from?

transferring lots of small files is much slower than transferring one large file, test with a large zip file or something.

When was the last time the flash drive were formatted, overwritting deleted files is much slower than writting to an empty drive (just like an SSD which is why they have trim and garbage collect that flash drives dont have)

the correct speeds you should be getting using your TransMemory USB 3.0 Drive write speeds of 6.3 MBps and read speeds of 74.1 MBps

 

[enes2nd]

Keep in mind that You can only transfer as fast as the slowest device in the path, cables included. Ie - if you are transferring to/from a usb3 harddrive also attached to the computer but thru a usb2 cable you will never exceed usb2 speed.

What were you transferring to & from?

transferring lots of small files is much slower than transferring one large file, test with a large zip file or something.

When was the last time the flash drive were formatted, overwritting deleted files is much slower than writting to an empty drive (just like an SSD which is why they have trim and garbage collect that flash drives dont have)

the correct speeds you should be getting using your TransMemory USB 3.0 Drive write speeds of 6.3 MBps and read speeds of 74.1 MBps

I am using the Flash Drive directly on the USB 3.0 port, no extra cables used, and yea i am aware that the speed can change due to cables etc.

I´ve tried transfering both large files and small files, single files and multiple files and the result remain the same. When i transfer the exact same files on my other USB 3.0 Hard Drive, it clearly shows the speed difference.

The last time the Flash Drive was formatted was right after i opened the package. I opened it and formatted it to NTFS (default format).

Ive read on other sites were people have reached a write speed of 20mb/s and read speed up to 70mb/s on a constant basis. I guess my problem is that the Flash Drive is not recognized as USB 3.0 SuperSpeed, but as 2.0 High-Speed. If i can manage to fix that, i think ill be good from there, but how is the question.

 

[Snipergod87]

Either way USB 2.0 is capable of 30MB/s. You could download and run the ATTO benchmark on your USB drive.