Hello,
I have an Older USB 2.0 256 MB Flash Drive that copies a collection of 200MB files within four minutes but a New 4 GB USB 2.0 Flash Drive takes more than 17 minutes to copy the same files from the same PC connected to the same port.
It shows about 140 minutes to copy Open Office portable in the Newer one. Due to this issue I have been unable to copy all my applications and files into it as it is showing that it will take more than five hours to do so.
Why is it so and how do I resolve this?
Thanks in advance for any answers.
Regards
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Do you have your USB Flash Drive plugged in to a USB 2.0 port.
The cause for it being slow could be that you have it plugged in to a slow USB 1.0 port.
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
well yea i had the same problem i had a 512GB usb drive and it was lighting fast like you i copied open office in 4 mins or less so then I bought a 5 gig (pocket hardrive) thinking "yay more space" but it was expremly slow!!! so as other people have said USB companies have traded space for speed when making devices
(somtime not always)
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not much you can do try checking its file system if ntfs try formating to fat32 not much difference try anyway (indexing service). if that doesnt work, just sell it and save up for a external hardrive (same here
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@ Mahesh
Why is it so and how do you resolve this? Well, my diagnosis is that you've likely bought a TigerDirect "Power Up" flashdrive, am I right? Huh? Eh?...
That's exactly what happened to me. The real funny part is that the model is called "Speed Drive", which it's anything BUT!!!...
It runs portable stuff off of it at a reasonable speed, but copying/moving large files/groups of files at once is like watching paint dry, only less fun.
Anyhoo, I ran some benchmarks on it, and sure enuff, it runs like it's a USB 1.1 drive or worse.
Thinking I just got a bad unit, I called and got it replaced, then ran the benchies on the repl't drive and guess what? SAME results!
Called to complain, and the tech suggested I try and format the drive to see if that helps.
It didn't
I'm not gonna get my money back on it cuz, for 4 GB of storage and only costing me $21 after rebate,.the bargain can't be beat. But I did learn a lesson here:
The moral of the story is, never buy anything from TigerDirect called "Power Up" EVER - no matter how great the price.
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- Brad Stine
The Firefly seems to take 4 times longer to move anything as compared to my old JumpDrives. I have assumed this is due to the size - smaller than the plug on many of my USB cords. Too much to cram into the package, so speed was sacrificed. The packaging says USB 2.0, but speeds are at 1.1 levels or worse...
...The way that all those who've weighed in so far are having this prob ONLY w/ larger drive sizes - a buncha 4 GB drives and one 5 Gb drive.
Makes one wonder if this is some industry-wide policy by the makers - to sacrifice speed to gain storage.
It shouldn't oughtta be this way, or at least they should be HONEST about it, and label it as USB 1.1 spec.
"I don't hate cats...as long as they stay on the freeway, where they belong."
- Brad Stine
Hello,
Looking at all this makes me think that the size of the drive and the speed are inversely proportional to each other.
All manufacturers need to mention that the speed of transfer will decline with increase of the size so that as users we would be in a better position to weigh our options at the time of purchase.
Regards
I still have a 64 MB drive...;-)
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
Indeed!
"I don't hate cats...as long as they stay on the freeway, where they belong."
- Brad Stine
This problem occurs with Sandisk MiniCruzers as well. Just "upgraded" from a 1 gig to a 2 gig. File transfer speed cut to a quarter for double the space. Wonder how long the new Contours take.
Timothy Forster
Timothy Forster
I feel like a bonehead.
With all due respect to the problems others are having, I discovered a flaw in my theory.
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It turns out the port I usually plug my 4 GB "Power Up 'Speed Drive' " thumbdrive into - the front port, aka the handiest one to use - apparently is only a USB 1.1 spec port (My box has a mix of USB 1.1 & USB 2 ports on it). This is the one I ran my tests on...D'oh!!!...
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When I plugged it into one of the back ports on my machine today, and reran the same tests, my speed was much improved from before.
I have *yet* to rerun the tests on my smaller SanDisk drive for comparison, so the Mfr'ers apparent "speed vs. capacity tradeoff" is not ENTIRELY off the hook, but I'm at least comforted that this 4 GB unit is somewhat more of a value than I'd thought it was, speed-wise.
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When I've run the tests for comparison, I'll post back to let y'all know what the final verdict is.
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The moral of the story: Before whining, make D**N sure that the port yer using is a USB 2-enabled port!
"I don't hate cats...as long as they stay on the freeway, where they belong."
- Brad Stine
why I bought a USB extension cable:
To use the fast 2.0 USB from my USB card without rearranging half of my rooms furniture only to get to my USB back port.
"What about Love?" - "Overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate." - Al Pacino in The Devils Advocate
OK, so here's the deal:
The re-run benchies comparing my 4 GB "Power Up" drive with my 1 GB SanDisk Cruzer show them to be about the same speed - The 1 GB faster in a few parameters, the 4 Gb faster in a few different parameters, but the bulk of them on a par w/ one another.
(Benchmarking tools used: The latest versions of HDtune, HDtach, and Flash Memory Toolkit)
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Oddly, though, my "real-world" test of how long it takes to copy a bulky file (252 mb ISO image file) to each drive show a *significant* difference:
1 GB drive = 36 sec,
and
4 GB = about 90 sec. -
(Not sure whut up wit' 'dat, when the benchies are so close... Any ideas?...)
.
Any better benchmark toolz (freeware, natch) that y'all can suggest for me?...
"I don't hate cats...as long as they stay on the freeway, where they belong."
- Brad Stine
Having read most of the posts in this thread, its really impossible to say.
All are comparing red apples to green apples
or apples to oranges.
Lexar Model 1 will of course perform differently than Memorex Model 1
As will Lexar Model 1 compared to Lexar Model 2
Also the "Pocket Hard Drives" (Memorex Mega Travel Drive) are not flash drives and will not perform as fast.
In my experience when comparing same manufacturer\drive\model with only difference being capacity, the performance is on par.
You have no room to complain if you bought a Hyundai and expect it to perform like a Porsche
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