Windows 7 file transfer much faster than Windows 10?

[Jujubanzen]

Hello,

I have an older desktop rig running windows 7 and a newer laptop running windows 10. When I connect my 8 gb usb 2.0 flash drive to the desktop windows 7 machine, I can transfer a 1GB file in less than half a minute, averaging 70 mb/s. When I try to transfer the same exact file from my new windows 10 laptop, it averages 9 mb/s and it takes 5 minutes. What's the holdup?

Both machines are 64 bit, and have a large 16gb+ amounts of RAM. Write caching is enabled on both machines for this drive, and the drivers are up to date as well. It is a kingston DT 8bg drive. I am plugging it into usb 3.0 slots on both machines and the usb 3.0 drivers are up to date on both machines as well. I guess it's not incredibly important but I really am at a loss as to what is the problem.

 

[RaDiKaL_]

Well there are 3 things to consider:

1.- Being a laptop its HDD is usually of a slower RPM (5400rpm) so it won't transfer files as fast as a regular desktop HDD (7200rpm).

2.- Again, being a laptop if it's set its power feature to "balanced" or "energy saving" the HDD will work slower than usual.

3.- If you make sure to set it to maximum performance and you're still unable to get at least 25MB/s then maybe you're not really plugging it into a 3.0 USB interface.

 

[Jujubanzen]

The laptop is a Lenovo Thinkpad P50 and it has a PCIE NVME ssd drive, which confuses me even further. My laptop is on the high performance power plan, and I would think that the drive being a usb 2.0 drive it wouldn't matter whether it was plugged into usb 3.0 or 2.0. The thing is I know that all the ports on the laptop are usb 3.0