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what is the best flash drive to install vista\7 ?

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hclarkjr

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i just installed vista with a flash drive but to my dismay it took just as long as with a DVD so i am wondering if my flash drive is a piece of junk or not? it is a PNY optima attache 4GB. what is the best flash drive to use for stuff like this? thanx
 
While I may not directly answer your question, it should be noted that you'll always be limited by the USB 2.0 bus. You are probably only getting 30MB/sec (if your lucky). I'm not sure how flash drives perform these days, but a decent one could probably achieve that.

Considering the fact that a 16x DVD read speed is about 20MB/sec, its no surprise you aren't noticing a large improvement.


Every once and a while review sites will get 15 or so odd flash drives and benchmark them, but I haven't seen one in years. If I had, I'd link it.
 
hmm, never considered that about the speed. i see everybody rants and raves about installing with a flash drive claiming it is faster to do it that way. guess they are full of it then?
 
Originally posted by: hclarkjr
hmm, never considered that about the speed. i see everybody rants and raves about installing with a flash drive claiming it is faster to do it that way. guess they are full of it then?
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I dunno about all that... I have done it both ways - the flash drive was a good deal faster for me and more convenient for a those systems that did not have a DVD drive.

(I have a 22x SATA dvd drive in my primary system)
 
SSD is one thing and "flash drive" is something totally different even if they are both founded on the same concept of NVRAM, the implementation is quite different, to the point that USB flash drives give you 30MB/s while SSDs give you 250MB/s
 
Originally posted by: hclarkjr
Originally posted by: techs
I installed Windows 7 from my flash drive in 12.5 minutes.
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that is the kind of time i was looking for with vista, what brand flash drive was it?
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Kingston Data Traveler 2.0 8 gig.

 
Originally posted by: hclarkjr
i just installed vista with a flash drive but to my dismay it took just as long as with a DVD so i am wondering if my flash drive is a piece of junk or not? it is a PNY optima attache 4GB. what is the best flash drive to use for stuff like this? thanx
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windows spends a couple of minutes copying all the install files to the harddrive, then the entire installation procedure is done FROM the HDD itself.
The #1 factor being the speed of your HDD (a good SSD can do wonders) and the #2 factor being the CPU speed (for decompressing the various files)

Most devices can be read significantly faster than they can write. (actually i think ALL devices). So for copying speed, your source media matters little.
 
It took me 12 minutes on a dvd drive vs 8 minutes on my corsair voyager 8gb drive.

This was on Windows 7 Professional.

Is the 4 minutes worth it for you to waste time and money on getting a new expensive flash drive just to install windows? hehe.
 
Originally posted by: RIFLEMAN007
It took me 12 minutes on a dvd drive vs 8 minutes on my corsair voyager 8gb drive.

This was on Windows 7 Professional.

Is the 4 minutes worth it for you to waste time and money on getting a new expensive flash drive just to install windows? hehe.
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you have to ask??? 😀
 
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