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Help: Recommend flash drive(s) for small files
Cloq:
I am having a hard time finding flash drives that are small file(s) friendly (read fast write/delete).
The brands I have used: Corsair, Super Talent, Lifetime, Edge, PNY. Capacity range: 2GB - 16GB.
Relatively speaking, they all tanked when it came to dealing with small files (4KB and smaller).
Just recently, I spent a couple hours moving ~13K files (most) under 4KB size. Total amount: 5GB. >:(
All my flash drives are really fast when it comes to dealing with big files (over a meg).
As a test I copied 5 files, each 1GB and that process only took a few minutes.
Recommendations? Anyone? :)
timns:
Zip up your small files first?
Cloq:
I sync to my flash drive, and occasionally I back it up to another flash drive, structure and all.
I am thinking of syncing to a cloud storage service but the downside to that is always have to have the internet available.
wraith808:
Here's a thread on this. It's from 2009, but there's a lot of good info.
You could probably run tests on it and get good info on the actual transfers; there's some info on that here. Again, it's from 2009, but the program links provided still work other than Chip Genius and Check Flash.
Chip Genius seems to be at http://www.fake-memory.com/index.html, though it seems that this site is only for verifying if a chip is fake (the original purpose of that post). More on Check Flash (and some other speed utilities) can be found at http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/5-lightweight-tools-to-check-the-speed-of-your-usb-flash-drive-windows/, and a download link for Check Flash can be found at http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/Boot-Manager-Disk/Check-Flash.shtml.
I use the cloud sync route; I was concerned about having the internet available, but it's not really a big issue, it turns out (at least for me). I can recommend Dropbox and Jungle Disk for the sync.
4wd:
ChipGenius' home is at MyDigit, (Chinese), but you can also download it from here.
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