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Re: Silicon Power 32 GB USB flash drive gets hot and has speed problems?

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
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Date 2015-10-03 10:59 -0500

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> USB FLASH drives are not SSDs and can't be expected to perfrom like an SSD. 
> That being said, All FLASH drives have to do wear leveling. Since 
> performance is not a priority for these drives, that wear leveling is not 
> very fast.

Ah. Well, it was basically writing many files to it. IIRC, I only got 
about 1-3 GB out of 7 GB copied. And then, I retried and then noticed 
slower speeds even stuckage (0 byte for a minute to start, can't 
eject/unmount, etc.)). :/


> Your choice of file syste may be a big factor depending upon how much 
> writing of the related file management structure is going on.

> I've seen similar slowdown of USB FLASH drives in the past. Your experience 
> is not unique.

> As far as heat is concerned, writing and erasing FLASH does generate heat. 
> As a lot of writing is going on, heat should be expected.

Interesting. I didn't know Mac's HFS+ could slow down. I have not seen 
it happened with FAT32 and NTFS so far, but not on this drive yet.
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