armetis Posted February 2, 2009 Share Posted February 2, 2009 Hi, I've got a Survivor 32 GB which seems to be suffering from poor performance, particularly write speed. I had previously formatted as NTFS but having read a few posts here, I formatted back to Fat32. It didn't produce a massive bump in speed. I've now used the SDCardFormatter rather than Windows format to see if that improves things. I used HDBench before and after the SDCardFormat and got exactly the same performance figures. HDBench ran with the 100Mb file produced the following results:- All: - 5755 Read: - 17317 Write:-6717 Random Read: - 19133 Random Write: - 2873 I've had a look round the Corsair website to see if there are any performances figures quoted for this product, but can't seem to see anything. Are these figures really to be expected? I've got a number of Corsair USB flash drives (4 & 16GB Voyager, 16GB Voyager GT) and this is significantly slower than any of the other drives. I would obviously expect this against the GT, but I didn’t think that there would be a massive difference between Survivor & Voyager performance. Cheers, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted February 2, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted February 2, 2009 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...
armetis Posted February 2, 2009 Author Share Posted February 2, 2009 Ram Guy, Thanks for the quick response. I've submitted a RMA request as advised. Out of interest, what sort of numbers should I be seeing for this model? I would have though pretty much the same as a voyager? As I assumed the internals would be the same just different packaging? Thanks, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted February 2, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted February 2, 2009 The write is a bit low but be read should be about 30 MBps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ioanv Posted March 27, 2009 Share Posted March 27, 2009 Hello I'm writting to you from Romania. Here are some figures that I've obtained with my 16GB Survivor (8 consecutive tests): (I formatted the drive both in command line and SDFormatter V2.0) Read Write RRead RWrite 19964 6115 18587 2147 21122 6394 17155 2072 21165 6126 16704 1728 21302 6722 17038 2082 21209 6483 16623 2090 21209 6467 16704 2090 21481 6722 17126 2076 20906 6463 16384 2090 Here is the serial number on the USB plug of the Survivor stick: G16C FG2910232 Is this what can be considered a normal speed for this drive? Thank you Vlad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted March 27, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted March 27, 2009 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...
mdemetz Posted April 4, 2009 Share Posted April 4, 2009 I forgot to check test with the factory format. I used the command prompt format (FAT32 /u /32K) and then ran HDBench 3.40 with 100MB. I got(XPSP3); Rd 22515 Wr 5586 RRd 23230 RWr 2023 I the tried the SD formatter(v2000) and it failed with something like 'illegal size error'. I then formatted it with XP's Disk Managment(32K) and then I got; Rd 28240 Wr 10065 RRd 28484 RWr 2751 I am consistantly getting 10xxx Write speeds now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted April 7, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted April 7, 2009 7-8 MBps is normal for the 16-32 Gig Flash Voyager/Survivor flash drives. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malacron Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 I have the same drive 32GB survivor and while I have pretty agreeable read speeds my write are consistantly very low. What file format / formatting methods should a person consider as best practice for a flash drive of this size. Currently I'm formatted NTFS Windows reports average write speeds of under 3MB/sec - never above 3. I used windows to format the drive.. If another method is preferrable please feel free to suggest something better. Thanks Mal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted April 8, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted April 8, 2009 Please try and format the drive with the Format utility from the SD-CARD Organization. Then Please try the HD-Bench software to test the performance with 100 MB file size and let me know the results.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamescatdog Posted April 10, 2009 Share Posted April 10, 2009 today I received my rma replacement for the Corsair 32gb Survivor and it is slower than I can imagine. Same problem as the first one i bought. When I tested it today on both my PC and MAC it was stating it was going to take over 3 hours to load 8 gigs of data. I tried using the format tool listed in these forms and it crashed my system. When I run the system test from HDBENCH I get Read - 0 Write - 0 RR - 242678 RW - 387965 Not worth the trouble. It took quite some time to get the replacement unit also. I guess I will have to pay for shipping again and wait some more. In the mean time I purchased a 16gb from another brand and its plenty fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malacron Posted April 12, 2009 Share Posted April 12, 2009 Thanks for the reply here are the results: HDBENCH Ver 3.40 beta 6 ©EP82 M/B Name M3N72D Processor 3010.22MHz[AuthenticAMD family F model 4 step 2] Processor 3010.22MHz[AuthenticAMD family F model 4 step 2] Processor 3010.22MHz[AuthenticAMD family F model 4 step 2] Processor 3010.22MHz[AuthenticAMD family F model 4 step 2] VideoCard RDPDD Chained DD Resolution 1680x1050 (32Bit color) Memory 2097,151 KByte OS Windows NT 6.1 (Build: 7000) Date 2009/04/11 22:42 @oem1.inf,%napadesc%;AMD AHCI Compatible RAID Controller ALL 6102 Read Write RRead RWrite Drive 21829 4682 21829 478 J:\1MB Ran the format as quick format with erase off. Second time full format. Test1 ALL 5946 Read Write RRead RWrite Drive 21829 3447 21829 462 J:\1MB TEST2 ALL 5955 Read Write RRead RWrite Drive 21871 3447 21829 496 J:\1MB TEST3 ALL 5955 Read Write RRead RWrite Drive 21871 3447 21829 496 J:\1MB Quick Format Once again all erase off: Change the File Size.. you'll see: TEST 1 - 100 MB File ALL 7632 Read Write RRead RWrite Drive 24305 9811 24398 2542 J:\100MB TEST 2 - 100 MB File ALL 7621 Read Write RRead RWrite Drive 24305 9811 24305 2545 J:\100MB TEST 1- 1 MB File ALL 5675 Read Write RRead RWrite Drive 21212 1872 21871 446 J:\1MB Big Difference when moving a small file and larger file appearently. Thanks for the help.. If I can get similar speeds moving files I think it's working properly. Thanks again, Mal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted April 14, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted April 14, 2009 Yes those results look normal for 100 MB File size. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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