Well, I bought <a href="http://www.newegg.com/product/product.asp?item=N82E16820320002">this usb drive</a> and the transfer speeds were painfully slow. We're talking like 5-10 seconds to save a word document. Thought I might be able to speed things up by getting rid of the conversion process from FAT32 to NTFC, but it doesn't matter. It is just slow as hell.

If you have any clue why, let me know.