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ZiNgA BuRgA · 07/04/2008 04:49 AM

After the death of my old USB thumbdrive, I've been using my portable HDD these days, to carry stuff around.

But yeah, it's larger, and has moving parts...  so I decided to buy a new USB drive, seeing the prices of them now dirt cheap.

Got myself an 8GB cheap/generic brand (my experience with generic brand USB drives aren't that bad - sure, they're not the fastest, but usually reasonable).
But this one has absolutely horrible write speeds...  It's like USB 1 speeds.  Copying from the drive feels more like USB 2, but seriously, double you tee eff?

Urgh, oh well.  It didn't cost that much anyway.

squee666 · 07/04/2008 05:01 AM

yeh cheap ones always read slowly

im using a 2.5inch 40gb laptop hd in a really small usb powered case

hibbyware · 07/04/2008 05:04 AM

Results from ℋiЬЬyℬot™ - "better than Google"

Well cheap drives are always slow but the question is can you live with it,

I'm guessing you use your thumb drive a lot so it may be worth buying a better one further down the line at some point,

I'm still using my MP4 player as my portable HDD but I don't use it that much so speed is not an issue,

Assassinator · 07/04/2008 05:27 AM

My sister's generic one doesn't run that slow... Mine's Kingston, and it is faster than hers, so I guess there is a difference.

Anyways, I really need to get a bigger USB. Mine's currenty 1GB, and these days often I run out of space. And carrying a spare DVD-RW around (what I started doing like 2 weeks ago) isn't fun. It's really cheap these days anyways.

diego · 07/04/2008 05:28 AM

Sounds like mine, except mine is 4gb.

ZiNgA BuRgA · 07/04/2008 05:59 AM

Yeah, I probably should've gone for a 4GB Kingston - around AU$22-$25 from memory, whereas the 8GB I got was AU$38. Just thought 8GB would be more useful.

It's read is okay, so it's not too bad I guess.

PSPkiller · 07/04/2008 07:52 AM

i had a 2gb Sony drive die on me about 2 months ago. i wasn't really expecting that from something made by sony. shortly before realising the drive was dead i had done a reinstall of xp on my computer because it was all fudged up. the drive had a load of downloaded programs (legal of course) on that i hadn't yet backed up. that meant i had to try and remember all the stuff i had downloaded for that computer and then trawling through the interne for hours finding and downloading everything again. also i hadn't kept the recipt for the drive so I'm now stuck with a useless drive that i can't replace.

now i use a small card reader with the 8Gb Seagate ST1.2 Drive from my dead mp3 player for my portable data storage (its like a CompactFlash shaped hdd). its not the best solution as its read and write speeds are awful, it has moving parts, i have to carry a small usb lead with me to use it and the plastic casing of the card reader is really fragile and I'm constantly guing the whole thing back together.

feinicks · 07/04/2008 08:01 AM

or one could go for a Solid State hdd...
http://www.trustedreviews.com/storage/re...e-Drive/p1

squee666 · 07/04/2008 08:12 AM

i added an ini file to autorun an icon file
then have the icon and ini set to hidden
now i get this when i use my 2.5inch 40gb hd through usb
[Image: f_Untitled1m_cf475b3.png]

im thinking of making some chibi stickerz to add to the drive

ZiNgA BuRgA · 17/04/2008 01:56 AM

Managed to send it back in. Probably should've asked for a refund, but they offered a replacement instead (the store's technician tested it out, and agreed that it was unbelievably slow).

Oh well, it's only $38, and I'm interested to see what the outcome is, after the manufacturer sends something back...

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