- May 28, 2013
- 2
- 0
- 10,510
For those familiar with this particular series of drives, it's the purple one, model # DT101G2/32GBZET - I bought one of these on Amazon when they first came out, then another one almost a year later from Best Buy because my first one worked so well. Best flash drive I'd ever bought in fact, and I've had quite few. (I've developed an unexplainable addiction to buying flash drives!)
My second one just never worked right. I would have returned it within the 1-day return period, but benchmark testing programs showed that it was working fine, so I thought maybe it was my imagination. After all, it's a Kingston - why wouldn't it work right?
(rhetorical question)
I can transfer a large file to it with no problem, and reading from the drive works as it should...but transferring many, many small files to the drive causes it to slow down. It pauses after a small handful of files (what I assume to be the buffer), making the overall transfer take forever. The pause can range from a few seconds, up to a minute, and sometimes it stalls out completely. I don't think the transferring of many small files was covered in whichever benchmarking program I used. My solution to this program so far has been to transfer small clumps of these small files at a time, so that if/when it stalls, I know where to start over from. But this can be quite tedious.
What would you do in this situation, if you were the kind of person who couldn't bring themselves to just toss a flash drive into the trash? Would you find a new use for it? Perhaps perform some kind of software tweak to make it run better? Different filesystem format or allocation size? I've never seen this kind of performance in any of my off-brand drives, which leads me to think it might just be a waste of time. But I don't wish to waste YOUR time, so if you have any ideas, I'd be open to hear them, but if not, don't worry about it.
My second one just never worked right. I would have returned it within the 1-day return period, but benchmark testing programs showed that it was working fine, so I thought maybe it was my imagination. After all, it's a Kingston - why wouldn't it work right?
(rhetorical question)I can transfer a large file to it with no problem, and reading from the drive works as it should...but transferring many, many small files to the drive causes it to slow down. It pauses after a small handful of files (what I assume to be the buffer), making the overall transfer take forever. The pause can range from a few seconds, up to a minute, and sometimes it stalls out completely. I don't think the transferring of many small files was covered in whichever benchmarking program I used. My solution to this program so far has been to transfer small clumps of these small files at a time, so that if/when it stalls, I know where to start over from. But this can be quite tedious.
What would you do in this situation, if you were the kind of person who couldn't bring themselves to just toss a flash drive into the trash? Would you find a new use for it? Perhaps perform some kind of software tweak to make it run better? Different filesystem format or allocation size? I've never seen this kind of performance in any of my off-brand drives, which leads me to think it might just be a waste of time. But I don't wish to waste YOUR time, so if you have any ideas, I'd be open to hear them, but if not, don't worry about it.
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