Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!feeder01.blueworldhosting.com!border2.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 00:34:56 -0500 From: ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) Subject: Re: Silicon Power 32 GB USB flash drive gets hot and has speed problems? Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage References: User-Agent: tin/2.2.1-20140504 ("Tober an Righ") (UNIX) (Linux/4.1.3-200.fc22.x86_64 (x86_64)) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 03 Oct 2015 00:34:56 -0500 Lines: 92 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 71.103.224.66 X-Trace: sv3-xbgzSN2+r9CuXMgbO8kchcn6AO/sHiDh9h/HTv4nkaI+LpztBZrx/2NvwqQcAAJM4vz6nY9zRAeqgWU!DPUsaisuLGTyOG9aAc9orD0kfmu5MxVKFH76o4u7wvl89CzyOYsKUfrsAEseYwdvOwQmfKEPw43Y!RIb2b8sbnDieIqwnj5r3KOcdTN4C9PA= X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 4835 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage:1032 comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage:6487 Does anyone know if there is a good USB flash drive checker that does more than Mac OS X's Disk Utility verifications and repairs? Maybe surface scans or something? In comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage Ant wrote: > Hello. > I have a 32 GB Silicon Power (SP) USB flash drive that gets very hot and > gets really slow. I don't know if it is a hardware issue or something > else. I formatted it with Mac's HFS+ with journals as a single > partition. I copied lots of files and stuff for a few hours, but noticed > it is gets slower even copying a 1.7 MB took over a minute! Even > (unmount/eject)ing had problems (Finder couldn't eject). I used two > different MacBook Pros and their multiple direct USB ports. I have not > tried Windows and Linux yet since they don't use HFS. > I tried formatting it again and redoing it, but same thing after a few > hours. Am I doing something wrong with HFS setup with it? > I even tried Disk Utility and it reported no problems on whole drive, > and then found errors in partition to force me to reformat. The second > time it happened again, I didn't get any Disk Utility's errors. > FYI according to Mac OS X v10.10.5's About This Mac's Storage and USB > sections: > 32GB: > Available: 28.32 GB (28,318,318,592 bytes) > Capacity: 32.12 GB (32,119,939,072 bytes) > Mount Point: /Volumes/32GB > File System: Case-Sensitive Journaled HFS+ > Writable: Yes > Ignore Ownership: Yes > BSD Name: disk2s2 > Volume UUID: F2CB1FA1-2083-3BD3-80F6-743A2F4DDCB1 > Physical Drive: > Media Name: SRT USB Media > Protocol: USB > Internal: No > Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table) > S.M.A.R.T. Status: Not Supported > USB: > Product ID: 0x1000 > Vendor ID: 0x090c (Silicon Motion, Inc. - Taiwan) > Version: 11.00 > Serial Number: AA0DY4CZA[deleted] > Speed: Up to 480 Mb/sec > Manufacturer: SRT > Location ID: 0x1d110000 / 7 > Current Available (mA): 500 > Current Required (mA): 500 > Capacity: 32.46 GB (32,463,912,960 bytes) > Removable Media: Yes > Detachable Drive: Yes > BSD Name: disk2 > Partition Map Type: GPT (GUID Partition Table) > S.M.A.R.T. status: Not Supported > Volumes: > EFI: > Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes) > BSD Name: disk2s1 > Content: EFI > Volume UUID: 0E239BC6-F960-3107-89CF-1C97F78BB46B > 32GB: > Capacity: 32.12 GB (32,119,939,072 bytes) > Available: 28.32 GB (28,318,318,592 bytes) > Writable: Yes > File System: Case-Sensitive Journaled HFS+ > BSD Name: disk2s2 > Mount Point: /Volumes/32GB > Content: Apple_HFS > Volume UUID: F2CB1FA1-2083-3BD3-80F6-743A2F4DDCB1 > Thank you in advance. :) -- Quote of the Week: Allah's Apostle said, "Once while a prophet amongst the prophets was taking a rest underneath a tree, an ant bit him. He, therefore, ordered that his luggage be taken away from underneath that tree and then ordered that the dwelling place of the ants should be set on fire. Allah sent him a revelation: 'Wouldn't it have been sufficient to burn a single ant (that bit you)?'" --Translation of Sahih Bukhari, Book 54, Number 536 Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.home.dhs.org (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / Please nuke ANT if replying by e-mail privately. If credit- ( ) ing, then please kindly use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link.