I just bought a 64gb flash drive, but notice that when copying files (whether a large single file such as an ISO or several small files), the drive will copy for a period of time, then drop to 0 or very close and then continue this pattern until the file is copied.
any ideas?
Intermittent copying of files to/from flash drive
Zachary Jones
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Dominic Reyes
i should add that the issue occurs on multiple computers
Levi Perez
reading from an HDD or SSD?
Also, could just be a fairly shit flash drive.
Ethan Phillips
SSD. its a crucial mx300.
Joshua Kelly
Device starts copying
Nand heats up
Device slows copy
Nand cools down
Device speeds copy
Nand heats up
etc etc etc
Isaac Cook
Yeah then just a shit flash drive, likely doing what says.
Mason Moore
Just watercool your flashdrives and overclock them.
Grayson Hughes
the drive that i have has a thicc metal enclosure that helps dissipate the heat, it still heats up, getting quite hot to the touch, but it still manages 100-150MB/s+ in most tasks without dropping performance even on 60-70GB files.
Nolan Ross
it fills the fast dram cache and then has to stop to actually write it to flash
Jordan Edwards
i'll probably send it back then
yeah, so does this one. I thought kingston was a decent brand
i did disable write caching and saw the same behaviour
Joseph Ortiz
Usually not a heat management issue and more likely a caching issue caused by a hardware bottleneck, which is likely your Zip Diskette. The spikes are the cache actually being dumped onto the disk, the trows is the data being loaded into the cache. Could also just be multiple computers with awful controllers and source drives.
Thomas Bennett
this
John Phillips
It's $13 for 64GB. What did you really expect?
My 128GB one is $45.
Obviously you pay for performance when it comes to flash memory.
James Nelson
I'm not talking about windows write caching
Connor Sullivan
post a crystaldiskmark run
Zachary Lewis
I don't think flash drives have a DRAM "cache". They have just enough to operate and direct write blocks, with probably a small buffer.
Josiah Long
If you want fast, get yourself one of these
amazon.com
500GB, $126. But over 1000MB/s read.
Jonathan Powell
Matthew Mitchell
that write performance is abysmal.
Angel Carter
I've requested a return. it works out slower than my usb 2 drives for small transfers.
Oliver Powell
yeah something is up with that...
Gavin Garcia
> what is this pretty graph
buffering of data to be copied.
> the nand heats up
fucking hell. this board has gone to shit.
Daniel James
Cheap thumb drives are about capacity, not speed. You bought this online for $13? Why would you even bother to go through the hassle of returning it? Poorfag detected.
Dylan Murphy
they send me a free return label, i put it in a post box when i'm out next.