On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:31 PM, John Carmonne wrote:
> Hi a\All
> I'm moving a 1.25 GB file from one machine to another and this thing ... took
> about 30 mins.,
I should have done the arithmetic long before this, but unless you're
way off on your numbers. 1.25 GB in 1800 seconds is only 0.71 M
At 4:43 PM -0400 4/29/2010, iJohn wrote:
FWIW, since I wanted to move an AVI file from my MacBook to one of my
desktop hard drives, I measured the transfer speeds of the old 1GB
Verbatim flash drive I used to move the file. (Would that be circa
2005?? I don't remember when 1GB was the current "ch
At 4:03 PM -0400 4/29/2010, iJohn wrote:
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Dan wrote:
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=1048576 of=/Volumes/MyUSBstick/gigabyte.file
I went with Dan's method ... it just seemed easier. Can't say why though. ;-)
For my 2008 white MacBook 500GB Hitatchi hard drive:
FWIW, since I wanted to move an AVI file from my MacBook to one of my
desktop hard drives, I measured the transfer speeds of the old 1GB
Verbatim flash drive I used to move the file. (Would that be circa
2005?? I don't remember when 1GB was the current "cheap" flash
capacity).
write: 5.2 MiB/sec
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Dan wrote:
> dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=1048576 of=/Volumes/MyUSBstick/gigabyte.file
I went with Dan's method ... it just seemed easier. Can't say why though. ;-)
For my 2008 white MacBook 500GB Hitatchi hard drive:
write: 37.7 MiB/sec
read: 41.9 MiB/sec
For
On Apr 28, 2010, at 8:18 PM, iJohn wrote:
It's easy enough to get a ballpark guess figure these days with
Win 7 by just moving files and asking for "details". I don't know how
to guess at transfer speeds in OS X though ... except by copying a
file and measuring the time by watching the clock.
> The only two reasins to format it HFS are:
>
> 1) Keep nosy PC users from seeing what's on your device, maybe.
> 2) Setting one up as a bootable device, which probably also requiresÂ
> re-partitioning them.
>
>
> I have problems with FAT 32 flash drives showing Mac files. I once copied
an i
On Apr 28, 2010, at 6:57 PM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote:
did you format it?
Yes they all come FAT 32 so for a Mac it needs to be formated. I
just never had one so slow, I thought they're all the same in that
respect.
Actually no they don't. OS X reads/writes FAT32 devices just fine, and
the
At 11:18 PM -0400 4/28/2010, iJohn wrote:
(Out of curiosity, is there a freeware (enough) tool for Mac's that
can be used to get a rough measure of the read (write?) speeds of a
drive? It's easy enough to get a ballpark guess figure these days with
Win 7 by just moving files and asking for "detai
On Apr 28, 2010, at 11:18 PM, iJohn wrote:
(Out of curiosity, is there a freeware (enough) tool for Mac's that
can be used to get a rough measure of the read (write?) speeds of a
drive? It's easy enough to get a ballpark guess figure these days with
Win 7 by just moving files and asking for "de
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 9:57 PM, JOHN CARMONNE wrote:
> I just never had one so slow, I thought they're all the same in that respect.
No, Non-volatile aka flash memory comes in lots of different speeds.
The reason why a 32 GB Intel SSD can run you around $360 is because it
claims to support read
On Apr 27, 2010, at 7:52 PM, Charles Lenington wrote:
John Carmonne wrote:
Hi a\All
I got a free 4GB Kingston USB flash drive at MicroCenter on Sunday
just for walking in the door and giving my e-mail addy. I'm moving
a 1.25 GB file from one machine to another and this thing is
slower th
John Carmonne wrote:
Hi a\All
I got a free 4GB Kingston USB flash drive at MicroCenter on Sunday just for
walking in the door and giving my e-mail addy. I'm moving a 1.25 GB file from
one machine to another and this thing is slower than the second coming it took
about 30 mins., I'm not complai
On Apr 27, 2010, at 8:02 PM, Dan wrote:
> At 6:31 PM -0700 4/27/2010, John Carmonne wrote:
>> I got a free 4GB Kingston USB flash drive at MicroCenter on Sunday just for
>> walking in the door and giving my e-mail addy. I'm moving a 1.25 GB file
>> from one machine to another and this thing is
At 6:31 PM -0700 4/27/2010, John Carmonne wrote:
I got a free 4GB Kingston USB flash drive at MicroCenter on Sunday
just for walking in the door and giving my e-mail addy. I'm moving a
1.25 GB file from one machine to another and this thing is slower
than the second coming it took about 30 mins
On Apr 27, 2010, at 7:01 PM, Brian Christmas wrote:
>
> On 28/04/2010, at 11:31 AM, John Carmonne wrote:
>
>> Hi a\All
>> I got a free 4GB Kingston USB flash drive at MicroCenter on Sunday just for
>> walking in the door and giving my e-mail addy. I'm moving a 1.25 GB file
>> from one machine
On 28/04/2010, at 11:31 AM, John Carmonne wrote:
> Hi a\All
> I got a free 4GB Kingston USB flash drive at MicroCenter on Sunday just for
> walking in the door and giving my e-mail addy. I'm moving a 1.25 GB file from
> one machine to another and this thing is slower than the second coming it
Hi a\All
I got a free 4GB Kingston USB flash drive at MicroCenter on Sunday just for
walking in the door and giving my e-mail addy. I'm moving a 1.25 GB file from
one machine to another and this thing is slower than the second coming it took
about 30 mins., I'm not complaining I just want to kno
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