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Originally Posted by sacerdos_daemonis
I doubt age is a factor. I have a fairly new Kingston DTSE9 16GB stick that has the same problem. Writing to it is excruciatingly slow. However, writing to my much older portable hard-drives is normal. And I have never formatted the Kingston. Perhaps some devices just don't play well with the system?
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Portable hard drives contain standard spinning disk or SSD drives, which have much faster read/write speeds than the Flash memory in a USB stick.
Age, as in how many times the Flash memory has been written to, can affect speed as the number of functioning memory cells decreases with repeated use (but that doesn't appear to be the problem the OP is experiencing).