knute Posted September 27, 2006 Posted September 27, 2006 I just bought another 4.0GB flash drive and went to save some files to it and it runs at about 1/4 the speed of the other 4.0GB drive that I bought last month. It is really slow. One thing I did notice is that the old one is FAT formatted and the new one is FAT32. Any ideas why the new one is so slow? Thanks, knute...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted September 27, 2006 Corsair Employee Posted September 27, 2006 Please format the Drive with Fat32 and then test it again. It’s best to open a Command Prompt and use this command: Format (X:) FS:Fat32 /U (X= the drive letter assigned)
knute Posted September 27, 2006 Author Posted September 27, 2006 I reformatted it and the performance is exactly the same. My test is copying a folder with about 400 files in it. The total size is about 23mb and it takes 2:50 with my new drive and :47 with my old drive. I've tried formatting it with FAT, FAT32 and NTFS. NTFS is interesting but not very useful. It does write fast though. My Sony 1.1 drive only takes 1:12 for the same write. Does this thing need to go back to Frys? Thanks, knute...
knute Posted September 27, 2006 Author Posted September 27, 2006 I take it back my Sony disk is a 2.0 but I tried it with another 1.1 drive and it took 3:10 for the same copy. Almost as good as the newer Corsair drive. knute...
knute Posted September 29, 2006 Author Posted September 29, 2006 I could use some other suggestions as to what is up with your drives. I replaced the problem drive and the new one is just as slow maybe even slightly slower. It is still much slower than the one I bought a few weeks ago. Are these really 1.1 drives? I would appreciate an answer to my previous posts too. Thanks, knute...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted September 29, 2006 Corsair Employee Posted September 29, 2006 Thats about normal for that drive, you might run HD Bench and see what it rates the drive as. But the Higher Density drives may not be as fast with small files because of the cluster size.
knute Posted September 29, 2006 Author Posted September 29, 2006 Thats about normal for that drive, you might run HD Bench and see what it rates the drive as. But the Higher Density drives may not be as fast with small files because of the cluster size. That doesn't make a lot of sense and isn't borne out by test (see my previous post). I've reformatted the new one with FAT and 64K clusters and it doesn't make any difference. Why is the one I bought a couple of weeks ago three times faster? Why would two supposedly identical drives perform so differently?
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted September 29, 2006 Corsair Employee Posted September 29, 2006 Please call our tech support at 800-205-7657 and we will try to help you.
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