Twenty6 Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 Hey guys first post here, hoping you maybe able to help out, I have some of the 8GB green Flash Voyager keys, when I first started using them they were quite quick, not as fast as the GT but I expected that. Now though they are extremely slow, I have read your other threads but don't see how they can help me. What I do with the drives. I use these drives to boot systems into WinPE, so they are formatted NTFS, I am constantly rebuilding these USB keys with new data and testing. But this is getting more frustrating with the additional time it takes to copy, it is even taking longer to open in explorer to view the contents. What I would like to do, with my limited knowledge of SSD hard drives is do a similar thing as a factory reset, so its like brand new and reclaim some lost speed. Is this possible? Just to Add, I am trying to copy data to one of my USB drives on a XP SP2 system, perhaps a total of 4GB and its been doing this for about 15 minutes now, something that normally only takes a few minutes.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted August 26, 2009 Share Posted August 26, 2009 They don't make Green colored USB sticks. If you're partially color blind then maybe it's a blue one you have. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twenty6 Posted August 26, 2009 Author Share Posted August 26, 2009 LOL I will take that one, yes they are blue, but I might just say I am color blind (which I am not). Any suggestions other pointing out my sight difficulties? ;): Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted August 27, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted August 27, 2009 Format the drive with the SD-CARD Organization. format utility and then run HD-Bench software to test the performance. Let me know the results! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twenty6 Posted August 27, 2009 Author Share Posted August 27, 2009 Hi Ram Guy, After I finished what you suggested I copied about 4GB of data on to the USB key, largest file being about 2.3 GB, it started off promising, saying it was copying at 57MB\sec then dropped to about 13MB\sec. This still seemed to take quite sometime, I think is noticeably slower than when I first got the USB key. Though this is somewhat hard to demonstrate. I have before and after readouts from HD Bench if that helps at all. Both doing 100MB test. Before using SD Formatter Read:28047 Write:8929 Random Read:27810 Random Write:1795 After using SD Formatter Read:28039 Write:7730 Random Read: 27803 Random Write: 2472 Also when I plugged my USB key into a Server 2008 desktop, it spun its wheels for 40 secs before opening explorer to view the files, this is after the cleaning process and copying data back on. But this might be the OS trying to figure out what it is. Cheers Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted August 28, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted August 28, 2009 It looks like it running exactly at were it should be for a non GT part. =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twenty6 Posted August 28, 2009 Author Share Posted August 28, 2009 This still seems slow for me, as I mentioned when I first got the device it was noticeably quicker when I was copying data to the device. Also as I mentioned in a XP SP2 laptop it spent some 30 minutes copying 4 GB of data. But this is a tough one to demonstrate as I had no tools to get proper metrics... I will continue to bash away with it and see how I go, I sure wish I didn't lose all my GT drives! Cheers Jon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted August 28, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted August 28, 2009 And you would go by the Sequential reading not random. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twenty6 Posted August 29, 2009 Author Share Posted August 29, 2009 Actually its the writing of data to the USB key, not so much the numbers posted, as I have said before, copying large(ish) files, up to 2.5GB for individual files it will just sit there and crunch, I have no way to tell you the exact time and why I mentioned it's hard for me to demonstrate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twenty6 Posted August 31, 2009 Author Share Posted August 31, 2009 Ok I have an update, and hopefully this will help out. I was copying data to the USB drive on a XP SP2 system from C: I was using robocopy to move the files, the data is about 4.5GB in size. Using the Robocopy logs it took approx 19 mins to copy the data, is this slow or that just how long it takes? It seemed to be a lot faster when I first got the drive but I do not have a log to check that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted August 31, 2009 Share Posted August 31, 2009 Depends on what you're copying. Lots of small files will take longer due to the additional file header info for each file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twenty6 Posted August 31, 2009 Author Share Posted August 31, 2009 yep I get that, there are a lot of files, I am basically coping several wim files and WinPE to create a bootable drive to build OSes. But I rebuild the USB keys on a regular basis testing newer drivers or different OSes etc. This is what brought my question about, is the constant data transfers slowing my key down? When I first got it it seemed quite fast but now it seems slow. I am drawing a comparison from my GT drives, (as I have had my GT's for well over a year), not on speed but on the constant over writing of the USB key, I have not seen a detrimental affect on the GT's doing the same things as compared to these lower spec ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted September 2, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted September 2, 2009 It shouldn't be slowing the speed of the drive do to time but the more information you have on the drive can effect the performance compared to a drive without anything on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twenty6 Posted September 2, 2009 Author Share Posted September 2, 2009 So the content itself being copied is pretty much the same from when the drive was purchased: Drive formatted to NTFS WinPE laid down so it can boot Wim files copied to the Drive. This is what I have been doing from the day I got the drive, some days I may just delete the wims and copy new ones across other days will format the drive and copy everything over again. The GT's that I have, have not noticeably dropped in their performance with the above process but the current lower spec one has (my perception, no hard evidence). I am not sure if there is anything that can done, I have a 170 of these USB keys in my environment and that is why I am being persistent with my post's as I know I will get feedback at some stage that these keys are slowing down. I thought if there was a way to reset them that would be nice, but it does not seem that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted September 8, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted September 8, 2009 Let's get it replaced, please use the On Line RMA Request Form and we will be happy to replace it. Be sure to check the box that says “I've already spoken to Technical Support and/or RAM Guy.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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