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Solved USB 3 Flash Drive... Could It Be Faulty ?
I recently acquired a Sandisk 32gb 'Ultra Fit' flash drive which is one of the small nano styled devices and I'm not really happy with its performance. Its the first USB3 flash drive I've used although I do use a normal USB 3 portable HDD for archiving files.
What I find is this,
1/ It runs pretty hot even when in a fresh formatted state and idle.
2/ It seems to cause the PC to work harder in the above state with the fan running a lot of the time. Unplug the drive and it stops.
3/ File transfer speed is good at around 30+mbs.
4/ I tried to copy a single 13.5gb Acronis backup file to the flash drive and Windows reports that there is insufficient space !!! This is with the drive formatted and showing 32gb free.
The drive was bought from a very well known high street retailer and I've no real doubts on it being fake or anything like that. It was all packaged absolutely as you would expect.
What do you think ? Would you expect an idle drive to run hot and is there any reason the 13.5gb file would not transfer.
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What is the format ? ExFat ? NTFS ? FAT32 ? It sounds like the disk is formatted with FAT32 then it won't take a large file > 4 GB
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Good question. Yes, its formatted using its defaults which I think are FAT32. Thanks
, I should have twigged that one.
Would you expect it to run hot when idle though ? or is that normal for a USB 3 flash drive.
OS
W10 x64 pro and W8.1 x86
Computer type
Laptop
System Manufacturer/Model
Dell Vostro 3750/Acer 9301
CPU
Intel i5/AMD Turion 64
Memory
4Gb/2Gb
Graphics Card(s)
Intel i5 internal/NVidia GEFORCE GO 6100
Sound Card
Realtek
Hard Drives
250Gb SSD and 120Gb
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HP Z4000
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76 down, 20 up
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For flash drive. You can either format with NTFS or ExFat. However, NTFS on flash memory has been known to be inefficient for quite some time. exFAT’s smaller footprint/overhead.
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8.1x64PWMC Ubuntu14.04x64 MintMate17x64
Computer type
PC/Desktop
System Manufacturer/Model
Home Brewed
CPU
I7 4970K OC'ed @4.7 GHz
Motherboard
MSI-Z97
Memory
16 GB G-Skill Trident X @2400MHZ
Graphics Card(s)
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
Sound Card
X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
Monitor(s) Displays
Dual HP-W2408
Screen Resolution
1920X1200
Hard Drives
256 GB M2 sm951, (2) 500GB 850EVO, 5TB, 2 TB Seagate
PSU
Antec 850W
Case
Antec 1200
Cooling
Danger Den H20
Keyboard
Logitech
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Logitech Performance Mouse MX
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35/12mbps
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Firefox
Thanks topgun, I've formatted it to exFat and that works OK file wise. Thanks :thumb:
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W10 x64 pro and W8.1 x86
Computer type
Laptop
System Manufacturer/Model
Dell Vostro 3750/Acer 9301
CPU
Intel i5/AMD Turion 64
Memory
4Gb/2Gb
Graphics Card(s)
Intel i5 internal/NVidia GEFORCE GO 6100
Sound Card
Realtek
Hard Drives
250Gb SSD and 120Gb
Mouse
HP Z4000
Internet Speed
76 down, 20 up
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MS Edge
Antivirus
Defender
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Guru
Thanks topgun, I've formatted it to exFat and that works OK file wise. Thanks :thumb:
You're welcome.
OS
8.1x64PWMC Ubuntu14.04x64 MintMate17x64
Computer type
PC/Desktop
System Manufacturer/Model
Home Brewed
CPU
I7 4970K OC'ed @4.7 GHz
Motherboard
MSI-Z97
Memory
16 GB G-Skill Trident X @2400MHZ
Graphics Card(s)
NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
Sound Card
X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional Series
Monitor(s) Displays
Dual HP-W2408
Screen Resolution
1920X1200
Hard Drives
256 GB M2 sm951, (2) 500GB 850EVO, 5TB, 2 TB Seagate
PSU
Antec 850W
Case
Antec 1200
Cooling
Danger Den H20
Keyboard
Logitech
Mouse
Logitech Performance Mouse MX
Internet Speed
35/12mbps
Browser
Firefox