vivienne Posted January 2, 2008 Share Posted January 2, 2008 Hi I now have 2 8GB USB flash drives - one by Supertalent and one by Verbatim. We are a small law firm and would like to transfer about 6 GB data onto a stick. *Both* drives take almost 3 hours to transfer 5.33 GB. This is done overnight with no other programs running. XP says the disks do not need defragmenting. The data is not encrypted. This is far too slow for our liking. I had calculated that it would be no more than 15 minutes. If a Corsair drive would go faster, I am interested in buying one. Security is an issue and I must have one that allows encryption. Perhaps TrueCrypt would be good. I am willing to wait for the Padlock one if it is just as secure but I do not believe that the data there is encrypted. Any advice that you can give me would be so appreciated. Thank you!! Vivienne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 2, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 2, 2008 Our "GT" Flash Voyager Drives will be the made with the fastest technology available and may offer some improvement in what you are doing. However, if this is 6 Gig of a lot of small files that may be why it's taking so long, try and use winzip to pack them in the 1.8 Gig files and then see how long it takes. And before you ask you cannot copy a file bigger than 2 Gig to fat 16 drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivienne Posted January 2, 2008 Author Share Posted January 2, 2008 Hi RAM GUY Thanks very much for your quick reply! Our "GT" Flash Voyager Drives will be the made with the fastest technology available and may offer some improvement in what you are doing. Are the GT Flash drives out yet ? However, if this is 6 Gig of a lot of small files that may be why it's taking so long, There are 2200 folders with 23,000 files but should that take *so* much longer than expected ? try and use winzip to pack them in the 1.8 Gig files and then see how long it takes. And before you ask you cannot copy a file bigger than 2 Gig to fat 16 drive. :-) I could reformat the drive to NTFS, right ? But it wouldn't work either because we do not want to unzip before we started working on it as we use it from clients' offices - so we would like it 'ready to go.' Will Truecrypt allow us to do this ? Thanks again - your advice is so appreciated. Vivienne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 2, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 2, 2008 Are the GT Flash drives out yet? A: Yes and have been for more than a year, up to 8 Gig is available. There are 2200 folders with 23,000 files but should that take *so* much longer than expected ? A: Yes, it will take longer with a lot of small files this is normal, but what I suggested was just to test the drive, in real use there will be limitations on any drive you use. However I would expect our Flash Voyager GT to be or take about 30-60% less time to do the same copy. :-) I could reformat the drive to NTFS, right ? But it wouldn't work either because we do not want to unzip before we started working on it as we use it from clients' offices - so we would like it 'ready to go.' Will Truecrypt allow us to do this ? A: NTFS will work with our flash drives no problem, but you would need to make sure all of the systems you will use them in will see that file system, IE Win2K or newer. And no I am sorry True Crypt will just encrypt the files or folders Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivienne Posted January 2, 2008 Author Share Posted January 2, 2008 RAM GUY: Thank you!!! Vivienne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 2, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 2, 2008 NP Please let me know if you have any more questions! Happy New Year! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivienne Posted January 2, 2008 Author Share Posted January 2, 2008 NP Please let me know if you have any more questions! :-) As long as you are there answering questions and helping people out so promptly and so efficiently, I shall from now on buy "Corsair" everything. Happy New Year! Thank you and you have a great new year as well!! Vivienne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 2, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 2, 2008 Thank you for the compliment, we do try our best to help everyone, but honestly I am sure there may be a few that it might take a bit longer. However, I think that 90% if not 99% of the people that come to our support system are happy with the help they have got from us. And we always try to do what we can to make it as painless as possible for everyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivienne Posted January 2, 2008 Author Share Posted January 2, 2008 RAM GUY: Another question about the same topic: Does having voice messages and TTIFs as part of the data increase download time ? Thanks! Vivienne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 2, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 2, 2008 No the files are transparent to the drive, it only see's "0" and "1" a lot of small files say 256 K or less will be much slower that one 1.0 Gig File, because every file has a start and end point that goes into the File allocation Table. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivienne Posted January 7, 2008 Author Share Posted January 7, 2008 Hi Ram Guy I am so sorry to be thanking you so late !! I did not get notification that you had responded. I thought that was strange because you always respond so quickly so today I looked in the forum itself and lo and behold, you did respond quickly! Thank you. Vivienne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted January 7, 2008 Corsair Employees Share Posted January 7, 2008 Yes sometimes the notifications don't seem to come as quickly, or it may be getting caught in your emails spam filter. But I try hard to answer all new posts every day. Excluding weekends and holidays. But the notifications do have a low priority on the email server so its not a bad idea to check your post from time to time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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