djmax Posted November 12, 2010 Share Posted November 12, 2010 Hi, I recently purchased this usb drive for its impressive r/w speeds. However, I am disappointed to find the write speed benchmarking below par. I am getting no better than 20MB/s. The drive is formatted as FAT32 with default allocation size for Win7. I have tested this drive in a powered hub in case it was a power issue, and I have also formatted the drive with the SD Formatter mentioned in another thread, but all to no avail. Atto: http://i52.tinypic.com/6z4v0n.gif Crazy Japanese utility: http://i51.tinypic.com/ifoi8l.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synbios Posted November 12, 2010 Share Posted November 12, 2010 Try NTFS first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djmax Posted November 12, 2010 Author Share Posted November 12, 2010 NTFS usually benchmarks slower than FAT32, and it was no different in this case: Atto with NTFS formatted: http://i54.tinypic.com/25ajd41.gif Crazy Japanese utility with NTFS formatted: http://i52.tinypic.com/11wdabo.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 13, 2010 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 13, 2010 Two things to try one being the latest Intel chipset driver if you have not done so also please test this on another system as well. Directly connect to one of the ports on the MB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djmax Posted November 13, 2010 Author Share Posted November 13, 2010 Sorry for questioning the speeds of your stick. I think it's the MSI H55M-E33 that's the problem. I tested the stick on a Tyan Tomcat S2925 (nForce Pro 3400 s/bridge), and the write speed is ~26MB/s, which is very respectable. Atto on Tyan*: http://i51.tinypic.com/2ccnqrt.gif *Had a couple of problems with Atto halting and/or throwing 1007 error code, and then "My Computer (Not Responding)" until I replug the stick. Not sure what all that was about. Btw, I am using the latest Intel chipset driver for the MSI mobo: No code has to be inserted here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 15, 2010 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 15, 2010 That is not uncommon with some MB's you might also check with MSI for the latest BIOS as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gkaytaz Posted November 17, 2010 Share Posted November 17, 2010 Cluster size makes a difference for FAT32. This is not an official test however. Depending on your system components these results might not hold. In my case the following works the best for my Voyager GTR 32 GB on a Windows 7 Home Prem. 64 bit machine: FAT32 file system 32 KB cluster size The performance is very close to the reference benchmarks (R:34 MB/s and W:28 MB/s). For a 64 KB cluster size the performance is about 10% lower. Any cluster size 16 KB or less causes a performance hit of 15% or more. When I test the same stick on a Windows XP Pro SP3 machine I observe similar performance levels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djmax Posted November 18, 2010 Author Share Posted November 18, 2010 In my case, the cluster size makes no difference as it is definitely the motherboard which is the limiting factor. I have it flashed to the latest bios too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 18, 2010 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 18, 2010 Have you tried the latest Intel Chipset drivers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djmax Posted November 18, 2010 Author Share Posted November 18, 2010 Thanks, but I mentioned in a previous post that I was running with the latest drivers - 9.1.2.1008. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 19, 2010 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 19, 2010 There is a newer version 10.x something I think, search for it and see if that helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djmax Posted November 19, 2010 Author Share Posted November 19, 2010 There is no official higher version. Also, from what I have read, and according to this, the Intel Chipset Software does not install a usb driver. In fact, it is not a driver at all according to this. Hm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 19, 2010 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 19, 2010 Yes you are correct but the I/O Hub is part of the south bridge Hub and it has improved performance on other flash products. So its worth trying and yes too you are correct the latest version is in BETA so its not an official release at the moment. Or use the drive on another system is about all we can suggest but the fact it works on another system would suggest its not the drive that is the bottleneck. http://i51.tinypic.com/2ccnqrt.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djmax Posted November 19, 2010 Author Share Posted November 19, 2010 The fact it works on another system would suggest its not the drive that is the bottleneck. I figured that out a few posts back ;): Depending how I feel, this mobo could well end up on ebay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employees RAM GUY Posted November 22, 2010 Corsair Employees Share Posted November 22, 2010 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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