Hi, I have 4 usb drives,
one of the original powervaults 64mb
a cheapo lexar jumpdrive 128mb given by a school
a sony USM512E from work
a sony USM1GJ just bought.
I ran portable apps firefox, gaim and filezilla (portaputty as well) from the 64/128/512.
Then all went to junk on both the 512 and the new 1gb. Both from sony maybe thats the bad part, but I sent the 1gb back and they shipped a new one, I swore the thing was slow as heck but its on both drives im seeing this, where before it wasn't.
When opening an application, the app takes 3x as long to load, talking 20+ seconds here. Then while open, say firefox, will freeze when scrolling for about 3 seconds then move again. Happens when typing, or anything, same with filezilla, it will start going then pause again.
I see theres a option in hardware settings to change from optimze for quick removal to optimize for best performance, didn't mess with it as haven't had to before, does anyone else see this or have a sony drive that doesn't see this?
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Disable sessions in Firefox and it will help. It's mentioned right on the Firefox Portable Support page (as are a couple other things).
Sometimes, the impossible can become possible, if you're awesome!
thanks for reply, sessions was turned off already. It isn't just ff its all programs, and something else is wierd, sometimes the program dissapears from task bar, no biggy just alt tab to it.
Perhaps i need to be asking which USB drive do peeps use that has fast "small writes" hehe.
This newer J (sorry 007 fans) sony model is slower than the older E style, and costly at 50 bucks a pop.
think there is some thing with sont flash drives, compression that is on the drive. when you try to run app it may have to uncompress to run
only sony drives have this technoligie
may be of some help to why so slow
I dunno if you tried this yet, but defragging your USB keys CAN really improve the speed, I personally used diskeeper to put some order on my transcend stick and honestly, it helps a lot.
Have you changed computers?
I find that running apps on a USB1.1 port tends to be slow as hell.. while bringing the same stick to a usb2.0 port makes all the difference in speed.