Do you remember on midimag when Patric got his solid state drive, and he had to get a raid card to keep up with the through-put?
I think he spent some money for his solid state drive, I don't know if it's one of the really fast pure slc ones, but there are some hybrids that are fairly fast.
But are the drive controlers in your machine fast enough to keep up with them?usb surely won't be, and depending on your sata revission, your going to top out at whatever it supports.
So taking all this in to consideration, the time honored answer is to get more ram.
And then you have to decide whether that's machine is worth it or not, depends on how old it is, and older ram can be cheap, or it can really be expensive depending on how old and availability at any time.
By the way, now is not a good time to buy hard-drives, because of the flooding in China, and western digital getting swamped, drive prices have trippled.
They'll come back down eventually, but there's a shortage right now. At 06:13 PM 11/17/2011, you wrote:
When I read the specs for USB 2, it supports transfers up to 400 megs per second, if I read correctly, and yet the transfer rates to and from the thumb drives aroundhere are pitiful.The thumb drives I have are by Hitachi, a good maker, I guess, so should do okay, and yet I get only about 11 to 15 megs second on my new computer, which has USB 2 ports, not USB 3, and only 2 or 3 megs second on this other Windows 7 64 bit computer,also with USB 2 ports.I can't comprehend why there is so much difference in reading and writing to thesame USB drives on the two computers.I read an article saying you can soup up any thumb drive by reforematting it to NTFS instead of FAT32, plus right clicking on the drive and selecting Optimize For BestPerformance.Even so, I read posts in that forum claiming only 30 or 50 megs second at best. Some posts said it makes no difference, 30 or 50 megs second is a false report, caused by reformatting to NTFS, that transfer to and from the drive actually continues after the final report is displayed, and you'll lose your data if you quit too soon.Some forum posts said NTFS is no faster, even slower than FAT 32.Okay, maybe that trick works and maybe not, but where can I buy a very fast thumb drive, as fast as the medium will go, and what do I look for in designation, flashmedium class, whatever?It doesn't need to be a huge drive, no larger than 4 gigs or so, and I'm definitelynot looking for a SSD drive, just a thumb drive.I read about SD flash drives, for video cameras and such, that are fast enough torecord video live at high frame rates. That's the speed I want in a USB thumb drive. Any ideas, anyone? Thanks for any tips, Indigo L
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