[ale] [OT] Flash Drive Lag

[Dan Lambert]

I have a 4GB Lexar, and it is as fast (at least as far as I can tell) as
my 512K Lexar. There is no niticable difference in speed. I have a 4GB
that I bought at Microcenter, but it wasn't their brand, and it is a
LITTLE slower than the Lexar, but not much.

It could be the quality of the memory that they use in those drives is
not as good. there has to be some difference, or the price would be the
same (or comparable).

Dan

On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 13:53 -0500, Preston Boyington wrote:
> I just got one of the 2GB Flash Drives from MicroCenter.  Immediately I
> rsync'd all my portable software and other data from my 512mb thumbdrive
> and anxiously waited to play with my new toy.  well, I'm pretty
> disappointed.  this thing is extremely slow compared to my 512. i had
> heard that flash drives slow as the size goes up (ie. a 512mb would be
> faster than a 1GB), but this is mindnumbing.
> 
> i wondered if partitioning the drive would make a difference?  i wanted
> a larger drive mainly to have DSL and a couple of other 'nix toys
> available while i am traveling and having to use others win machines.
> 
> worst case i will go back to using my 512 for daily usage and keep this
> as an auxiliary data drive.  although that would be disappointing.  will
> see if the speed is better on my linux box this afternoon.
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