anbu9 Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 I recently purchased a 8gb Survivor drive and ran a benchmark test on it and the transfer rate for read is slower by almost 8mb / sec. The write speed is also slightly slower by a few hundred kilobytes per second. Is this normal for the newer drives compared to the models from last year? The program I used is called "ATTO Disk Benchmark". Many websites use it to review flash drives. Also, I put in a request for the little rubber ring (which is on the drive itself) for one of my older Survivor drives last month and I have not received the rubber ring or a email acknowledgment of the request. Is there something wrong? Thanks for the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted August 18, 2008 Corsair Employee Share Posted August 18, 2008 Please try to format the drive from a command prompt with this syntax: Format (X:) /FS:FAT32 /U (X=the drive letter assigned to the Flash Voyager) then try the HDBENCH v3.40 Beta 6 to test the performance. And please do a full format of the drive before you run the test and set it to 100 MB file size. And let me know the results and resubmit the request for the O_Ring and we will try it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anbu9 Posted August 18, 2008 Author Share Posted August 18, 2008 The format of the drives helped, but whats the difference between formatting using the command prompt and right-clicking on the drive and using that format?? Also, the program which I used gave a bump in speed read/writes but there is still a noticeable difference of about 8mb in the read for the 8GB version and 2mb for the write (do you want the random read/write numbers?). Would this affect the performance of portable programs run on the drive? I will send another email for the O-rings again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted August 18, 2008 Corsair Employee Share Posted August 18, 2008 That is about normal, and formatting from a command Prompt with the /U will check any bad sectors and correct them where as a Windows Format will not. And as you put files on the drive it will slow down progressively more so than with a HDD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anbu9 Posted August 19, 2008 Author Share Posted August 19, 2008 Yea, I noticed the difference before and after I placed my data back on the drive. Thanks for pointing that out. But there would still be a difference no matter what between the 4gb and 8gb survivor drives in terms of speed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted August 19, 2008 Corsair Employee Share Posted August 19, 2008 The non GT version should read about 30 MBPS and Write at about 7 MBPs. 4 and 8 Gig will be about the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anbu9 Posted August 19, 2008 Author Share Posted August 19, 2008 Yea, thats not the case with the newer 8GB version of the Survivor drive. Would it make sense to possibly RMA the drive or is there something else that can be done instead? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted August 19, 2008 Corsair Employee Share Posted August 19, 2008 Let's get it replaced, please use the On Line RMA Request Form and we will be happy to replace it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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