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Got it today and Vista says it doesn't meet the requirements for readyboost. You can use the reg hack for it though.
 
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Originally posted by: SuPrEIVIE
i received mine 2 days ago and had to format to NTFS and transferring a 6GB file took way too long, 2MB/sec
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Agreed. This is the slowest device I have seen since the death of floppy drives. I wouldn't have believed that a memory-based device could be this slow.
 
Originally posted by: htne
Originally posted by: SuPrEIVIE
i received mine 2 days ago and had to format to NTFS and transferring a 6GB file took way too long, 2MB/sec
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Agreed. This is the slowest device I have seen since the death of floppy drives. I wouldn't have believed that a memory-based device could be this slow.
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I bought one even slower that that. I bought a 2GB Emprex flash drive (BTC made) at Fry's a couple months ago because it was cheap. The write speed was 0.9 Mb/sec. needless to say, it went back. Two Mb/sec is also too slow. I ended up going to a Lexar Lightning, where I get 10-15 MB/sec write, depending on file size.
 
well i know that when i converted to ntfs readyboost then became an option, but i dont think ntfs format will make it noticeable faster as it is real slow by default
 
I tested it with HDTach on Quick and Long bench and received scores of approximately 15MB-16MB/s out of the box with FAT32 formatting. Drive does not realistically perform that well in real-world usage. I transferred from my OCZ Rally 4GB, the entire contents, which was about 3.7 GB of small (couple KB) to medium/large (300MB) files, and it took about 25-30 minutes. This drive does very well on small files (50-60MB or less) not so well on large ones. I was able to transfer about 450MB of drivers uncompressed in about 4 minutes.
 
i guess this will not be good for running a small test vm off of then by it being so slow.... wonder if i should return it or deal with it.
 
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