29. USB Devices Slow

In Windows 1809+ default USB removal policy changed to Quick removal for additional safety instead of Better performance for additional speed; as a result USB devices may appear slower than normal. This reverts to the old behavior.

Enable Better Performance for USB Devices

⌘ + x › Disk Management › {USB DEVICE} › 🖱 › Properties › Policies

Removal policy

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Better performance

Write-caching policy

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Enable write caching on the device

Updated: 2021-02-19 Reference