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Copying from one USB flash drive to another.
Win7 SP1
When so copying the transfer rate varies constantly. The dialogue box gives a time of copying from 1 to 6 hours. Is this because some files are difficult to copy? Peter |
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Copying from one USB flash drive to another.
Peter Jason wrote:
Win7 SP1 When so copying the transfer rate varies constantly. The dialogue box gives a time of copying from 1 to 6 hours. Is this because some files are difficult to copy? Peter USB flash drives have low seek time (1 millisecond). There should not be quite as much variation, as you get when transferring file-by-file using rotating hard drives. Those have a significant seek time. Flash drives slow down a bit, if block substitutions are needed. (You've got some bad flash cells.) Check the reviews for your two flash drives. See if there is known variation in one or both of them. ******* An SSD drive on the SATA bus, it has a seek time of about 1/10th that of USB2. The reason for that, is USB2 uses a polling method, and part of the time is related to how the bus works. SATA is point-to-point and not shared, so you're getting closer to the characteristics of the flash chips themselves. The lowest seek time, is for RAMDisks (a box holding a bunch of memory DIMMs). Those can be connected to a motherboard bus, and have latencies as low as 0.002 milliseconds. Or about 500 times faster at it, than a USB2 flash drive seek. Paul |
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Copying from one USB flash drive to another.
Peter Jason wrote:
Win7 SP1 When so copying the transfer rate varies constantly. The dialogue box gives a time of copying from 1 to 6 hours. Is this because some files are difficult to copy? Peter You might check to see if your antivirus program is checking the USB drives. Mine has a tendency to automatically check any drive attached to the system. Stopping the scanning makes such transfers much faster for me. |
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Copying from one USB flash drive to another.
"Peter Jason" wrote in message ... Win7 SP1 When so copying the transfer rate varies constantly. The dialogue box gives a time of copying from 1 to 6 hours. Is this because some files are difficult to copy? Peter One (but not all) of the USB sticks I've bought, had in the instructions that it is beneficial to reformat the stick every once in a while. Be sure to click "Restore device defaults" and uncheck the "Quick format" box. As I frequently transfer from a Win7 box to a XP one, I formatted the stick on the XP box for the best compatibility - subsequently the 7 box was telling me 11 hours to copy a few Gb to the stick, moving the copied so far back and re-formatting as described above produced more acceptable results, the transfer rate went from a couple of hundred kb/s to several Mb/s. I've been told to expect cheaper USB sticks to be slower - the only cure for that is a higher purchase price. |
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Copying from one USB flash drive to another.
Ian Field wrote:
"Peter Jason" wrote in message ... Win7 SP1 When so copying the transfer rate varies constantly. The dialogue box gives a time of copying from 1 to 6 hours. Is this because some files are difficult to copy? Peter One (but not all) of the USB sticks I've bought, had in the instructions that it is beneficial to reformat the stick every once in a while. Be sure to click "Restore device defaults" and uncheck the "Quick format" box. As I frequently transfer from a Win7 box to a XP one, I formatted the stick on the XP box for the best compatibility - subsequently the 7 box was telling me 11 hours to copy a few Gb to the stick, moving the copied so far back and re-formatting as described above produced more acceptable results, the transfer rate went from a couple of hundred kb/s to several Mb/s. I've been told to expect cheaper USB sticks to be slower - the only cure for that is a higher purchase price. I found a pleasant exception to that, when the Best Buy sold Lexar S73 32GB, for somewhere in the $20 range. For the same price at another store, I got 1/4 the capacity and 1/8th the speed. That was a sale price, perhaps back in January. The regular price here, is a bit higher. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...tem=20-191-433 It's still competitive here. $25 at the moment. http://www.bestbuy.ca/en-CA/product/...95a2932 den02 That last time I got something that good, was an OCZ Rally2. And I think that one was more than $20 at the time. I have no USB3 ports here, and on a USB2 port, the reads on that thing are 35MB/sec (HDTune). Paul |
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Copying from one USB flash drive to another.
On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:29:10 +0100, "Ian Field" wrote: "Peter Jason" wrote in message .. . Win7 SP1 When so copying the transfer rate varies constantly. The dialogue box gives a time of copying from 1 to 6 hours. Is this because some files are difficult to copy? Peter One (but not all) of the USB sticks I've bought, had in the instructions that it is beneficial to reformat the stick every once in a while. Be sure to click "Restore device defaults" and uncheck the "Quick format" box. I'll give this a try As I frequently transfer from a Win7 box to a XP one, I formatted the stick on the XP box for the best compatibility - subsequently the 7 box was telling me 11 hours to copy a few Gb to the stick, moving the copied so far back and re-formatting as described above produced more acceptable results, the transfer rate went from a couple of hundred kb/s to several Mb/s. I've been told to expect cheaper USB sticks to be slower - the only cure for that is a higher purchase price. |
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