SiCwan Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 I just got my new Voyager 16gb flash drive and its taking way too long to copy things to it. I went over some posts here and got the HDBEnch program, and here's what it came up with. Is this normal for this model of drive? http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/4485/11112009123216pm.th.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meins321 Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 just copy some small files as big pack on it and you will feel if it's slow 1gb< should do the trick :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiCwan Posted November 11, 2009 Author Share Posted November 11, 2009 huh?....? since its in Fat32 i can't copy large files to it I know.. I zipped up a 7gb ISO in to 95mb files.. and it took 45min to copy the aprox 6.5gb worth of files... just seems way slow to me.. slower then a few other drives i have had in the past.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 11, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 11, 2009 According to that Pic the drive is performing properly, and writing one larger file verses a lot of smaller files would help improve the time it would take. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meins321 Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,2845,2283467,00.asp some numbers i found about the drive tested by others do you know how you can calculate the average transferspeed? @ RAM GUY Thanks that was i wanted to know smaller chunks should speed transfer up :-) but my experience is different, writing large files tops out at 28,8MB/s according to Win7/Vista. if i copy my dokument folder with 1,2GB Size to it, transfer slows down to 2MB/s and i have to wait 8 min. Longer than one big file twice the size thats strange .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 11, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 11, 2009 The HD Bench Software is the best tool to use to test the drives performance. And for ISO Images you can format the drive to NTFS file system. But one larger file would take less time than 10 smaller files of the same total Volume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meins321 Posted November 11, 2009 Share Posted November 11, 2009 yes that was my logic but stopwatch and just copying->format->testing shows different and that might be stupid to me i will look into it closer. i cann't be right, is there anything that slows down writing? like cache startegy on windows? some config i might have done wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 11, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 11, 2009 Each file gets an entry in the FAT Table and with more files will cause more writes to the FAT Table, were as One file just gets one entry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiCwan Posted November 11, 2009 Author Share Posted November 11, 2009 Ahh thanks.. I thought i read in one of the posts that leaving it as a fat32 would help preformance.. I'll format it and see if it doesn't go any faster.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 12, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 12, 2009 NP Please let me know if you have any more questions! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backdoc77 Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 I am seeing slow write speeds as well. I'm getting an average write speed of 350KB/sec when copying a 115mb folder from Windows 7 64bit. The folder has random sized files and subfolders. Normal? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
backdoc77 Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 hmmmm.....ok, i just copied 1 large file (414 mb) and got a much better 8MB/sec. So i guess multiple small files copy slower? Sound right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 23, 2009 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 23, 2009 Yes please read the whole thread and it makes sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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