kimcordina Posted May 8, 2009 Share Posted May 8, 2009 hi, i just purchased a brand new 8gb flash voyager pendrive from my local retailer and quickly noticed that its write speed was much slower than that of an old rubbish 4gb from another manufacturer and thought maybe something was wrong. so i searched these forums for any info and tested the drive using hd bench which showed my read speed to be 15mb and 5.5mb write speed, using the 100mb option ofcourse, the image showing this should be attached. unless i did not do my homework well, these are very very slow speeds but i just wanted to confirm this officially. this was all done on a macbook in xp in bootcamp, although i dont think this makes any difference since my other pendrive achieved almost double the speed using the same laptop and program thanks *** edit i would also like to add that this test was done after formatting using windows cmd prompt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted May 8, 2009 Corsair Employee Share Posted May 8, 2009 Please try and format the drive with the Format utility from the SD-CARD Organization. Then run the test again and see if that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimcordina Posted May 8, 2009 Author Share Posted May 8, 2009 a slight increase using the program you linked to reformat, but still pretty bad considering other people are getting 30mb+ read speed and certainly more than 7.5mb write speeduntitled2.bmp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted May 8, 2009 Corsair Employee Share Posted May 8, 2009 I am sorry but that is about normal for the current 8 Gig Flash Voyager, you are welcome to try a RMA if you like but the new drives will write at about the same speed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kimcordina Posted May 8, 2009 Author Share Posted May 8, 2009 ok thanks for replying so fast mate just wanted to make sure it wasnt faulty thats all cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted May 8, 2009 Corsair Employee Share Posted May 8, 2009 NP Please let me know if you have any more questions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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