USB Bandwidth Test Tool ?

[johnnymegabyte]

Is there a USB Bandwidth Test Tool to see home many MBPS is actually happening ?
Background: I just installed a USB 2.0 PCI card in one of my PC's at home, (Dell Pentium 4 1.5Ghz / not net connected) but XP still pops up a message, you could be doing this faster with a high speed USB device, when I put in my USB stick.
Is it the USB stick or the PCI card that XP is popping up the message ?

Is there a way to test how many MBPS the card is I/O'ing

Am I missing something, forget to config ... XP Plug-and-Play automatically detected the device and did its magic.
Or, should I install the drive that came on the tiny CD that came with the PCI card ?

Am I still USB 1.1'ing or is it 2.0 or just Two Point Slow

 

[dementedchord]

curious... is this one of those dual use (fw+usb) cards???

 

[johnnymegabyte]

no FW ... just 4 USB out the back of the card, and one internal output = 5 in total. And it was a b!tch to get the card installed. Didn't wanna press too hard to get into the PCI slot
I just phoned home and asked my teenaged daughter to read the box for the info ... clueless.
And the place where I got it website just has a picture - no company name.

 

[reddavid]

You may well be still running at USB 1.1 if there is, perhaps, a driver issue at play. Installing Service Pack 3 and running Windows Update afterwards to update any hardware SP3 didn't fiddle may help.

With regards to a benchmark, the easiest way to benchmark a USB drive is to find a fairly decent sized file (something around 50MB will be ideal, although anything above 10MB is usable), and to time how long it takes for the file to copy from harddisk to pen drive. Double-click the clock in the system tray for a timer that reports by the second.

USB 1.1 transfers at 12mbit per second, which means that a 50MByte (note, byte and bits are different, eight bits in a byte) file will take about 30-40 seconds to transfer. Maths for that being (filesize in bytes) / (12mbit / 8). USB 2.0 transfers at up to 480mbit per second, although no flash drive is capable of being written to at that sort of speed. But, if you do the test and you find that the file writes in anywhere under 30 seconds, you are using USB 2.

 

[johnnymegabyte]

No plans to go SP3. That PC is not web-connected.

However, your test case makes a good point, and if a huge file copies faster to the USB flash drive that before, and actually I have original USB ports to test transfer times. Thanks for the tip !!!