Is this 8gig flashdrive slow? Wha's the reading/writing speeds?
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I don't know the specific speed but it is not slow for me. Just be aware that it is very small, you need to attach it to something like a key chain to avoid loosing it.
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I use it in a USB 2.0 port. It is slower than if it was in a USB 3.0 port. However, it is considerably faster than my older Kingston 32GB flash drive. It's a good device.
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The song loading time is actually quite good, even when switching to different artists. The only slow part, is when you initially select USB as the input. It takes close to 10 seconds to actually load my 8gb flash drive. But after that it's fairly fast. I have not yet played any videos from the USB input, but I wouldn't expect it to be any different from songs.
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I use a usb 32 gb drive (dont need alot of time in my specific application)
2089340
It works as a large drive. I don't have the continued experience of the drive speeding up. But it works!
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I do not recall. I do not think the rotational speed of the drive would explain such incredibly slow transfer rates I was getting about 10 MB per hour.
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Sorry, I made a mistake. The USB 2.0 read speed is 30 megabytes/sec and the USB 3.0 read speed is 255 megabytes/sec., i.e., bytes not bits.
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If you mean the flash drive, I don't think there is a limit. I've used an 8gb and 16gb with no problems. I assume it will read a 32gb as well.
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I have used a 16 gigabyte flash drive with no issues. I am positive that a 32 gigabyte will be no problem.
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Yes, it realy is 500GB. It is this capacity because it uses that extra space for additional wear leveling. This is known as over provisioning. The extra space needed for over provisioning on this drive is necessary because it is triple level cell technology. Because of this, the flash actually has less endurance than the generation before it. With the proper wear leveling though, this is compensated for, and the drive is designed to last for quite some time. If you are a heavy user (meaning professional video editing, or any other use case where you are writing more than 10GB a day everyday), you should get the pro line anyway, as that is still multi level cell, and has greater endurance. But if you do that kind of heavy work, you should probably be getting an enterprise grade drive anyway with single level cell technology. So yes, this drive is genuine and it is fantastic. It is actually close to one of the fastest drives on the market, and the only that I know of that is optimized for larger capacities. Most other brands (particularly LSISandforce drives) are designed to be fastest at ~256GB, so if you want a large drive that doesn't suffer because of it's size, this is it. Edit: BTW, there are some non-insightful posts below claiming this is because it is what you get after formatting. Know that formatting will always use some of the storage and you will end up with slightly less. But in this case, it will be actually lower than the 500GB as 500GB is what it would be raw, not after formatting. My 250GB Sansung 840 came out to about 233GB. This is also partially because, for whatever reason, the solid state world measures in Gibibytes (GiB) or 1000MiB, while the rest of the storage/computer world (except for the silly apple world) measures in Gigabytes(GB) of 1024MB.
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My thoughts for WD drives sold in between 2010-2012. Higher end drives (such as "Studio" drives) with faster interfaces like Firewire 800 /USB 3 are likely 7200 RPM, 50MB/sec. Mid-level drives ("My Book") with medium speed Firewire 400 /USB 2 are likely 5400 RPM 30MB/sec. Mobile drives ("Passport" or "Passport Studio") powered by the Firewire or USB come in 5400 or even slower 3200 RPM 20MB/sec or less. I own several variaties of the WD Book, Studio, and Passport drives and I test them using the BlackMagic app for Mac. For me, I use Firewire 800 for the Studio drives (7200), USB 2 for the My Book drives (5400), and USB 2 for the Passport drives. Even though the spec,s performance, and bus speeds vary, it seems to scale accordingly with price. Which gets me to this conclusion, "these drives are a good value, and you generally get what you pay for".
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Hi, I got this in February from Amazon and I have been very happy with the performance of the Corsair 256 GB model I recieved. I did some real world transfers using a stop watch and a 5.23 GB file transferred from my internal SSD to the Corsair in about 26.7 seconds. A smaller file at 2.26 GB transferred in about 11.6 (remember I am pressing the button) so both clock in at about 200 MB/Sec writes. I downloaded and tested it with BlackMagic disk speed test and it consistently 170 write and 290 read speeds and Blackmagic says it would support writing at 1080p24 at 10 bit YUV 4:2:2 (whatever that means). I have even run a couple of VM's on it with VMware with acceptable performance. Hope this helps
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You can, as with any other flash drive, set it up to be used as virtual RAM, if that's what you're asking. It may or may not make any noticeable speed increase though. So if you don't need a small portable storage device and you just want a faster computer, you may want to just buy something that's main purpose is that.
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The formatted capacity should be showing 29.6GB with exFAT. But I was able to measure 47MB/s read and 13MB/s write, in a USB 3.0 memory card reader. It is possible that your card reader is not UHS-1 capable.
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Reads @ 19.5 Mb/s. Have not performed write test. Mostly use it for RasPi OS. Works well enough for that. Hope this helps.
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it took about 1 hr. I am told that the internal drive although it reads fast is not a good writter. Many recommend buying a 2 tb external drive that is high rpm's and it works better when hooked to the usb3 port..
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The drive works well. USB 3.0 is faster only if the computer being used is too. The drive is slightly smaller than WD, Toshiba, etc. But it is not significantly smaller or faster than a like WD. I think WD comes in 2TB for about the same price.