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| 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 | (3 earlier) <lI6dnUacP6HzCZLLnZ2dnUU7-L-dnZ2d@earthlink.com> <mupjq4$bfu$1@speranza.aioe.org> <XnsA529702442112CSKJHNMW985780A@94.75.214.90> <oN6dnbOq4dUdSYzLnZ2dnUU7-S2dnZ2d@earthlink.com> <muuobd$b7v$1@speranza.aioe.org> |
| Message-ID | <zPCdnTnw8a1fZ4_LnZ2dnUU7-fednZ2d@earthlink.com> (permalink) |
| Date | 2015-10-05 17:33 -0500 |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> wrote:
> In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Ant <ANTant@zimage.com> wrote:
> >
> >> USB Flash Drive Tester:
> >> http://www.vconsole.com/client/?page=page&id=13
> >
> > I ran it on the problematic USB flash stick for about twelve/12 hours in
> > a very old, updated Windows XP Pro SP3. No problems.
> That's good, have you tried copying files on the XP machine to see if
> it's any faster than on the Mac? You'll probably want to turn off
> write caching in the settings for an accurate test.
The only thing difference was yesterday was a cooler weather. I
might need to rerun the test when it is hot like next weekend when the
heat wave returns.
> > It had to format and use its own file system(?).
> It probably just writes a known pattern of bits from the start to the
> end of the disk, then checkes they match later. I doubt it bothers
> with a file system.
> You could probably do something similar from the terminal in linux
> with the dd command, though I'm not exactly sure how you'd identify
> where any problems were specifically. No doubt posting in one of the
> Linux groups would reveal a wealth of methods with varying lengths
> of command line complexity. md5sum would at least tell you if the
> data matched 100%.
Thanks.
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