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How can you tell how fast a thumb drive is? - Mac1337 - 04-16-2007
I am really disappointed with my USB2 Apacer. It might as well be USB 0.1. Looks like they come in different read/write speeds but it is nowhere mentioned.
Re: How can you tell how fast a thumb drive is? - jdc - 04-16-2007
they are all slow =(
too bad FW ones never took off
Re: How can you tell how fast a thumb drive is? - Z - 04-16-2007
The system profiler should tell you whether it's operating on 1.1 or 2.0... though yes, they're never terribly zippy.
Z
Re: How can you tell how fast a thumb drive is? - Racer X - 04-16-2007
do you mean how can you tell if Brand X is faster than Brand Y, or how to measure the speed when you get it home?
Re: How can you tell how fast a thumb drive is? - Lux Interior - 04-16-2007
Mine did abut 70 MPH in the spin cycle Saturday.
Still works fine (even went through he dryer).
Re: How can you tell how fast a thumb drive is? - Psurfer - 04-16-2007
Try thumb wrestling it.
Re: How can you tell how fast a thumb drive is? - OWC Jamie - 04-16-2007
I use them all the time to transfer a 1.2G file.
A generality:
The cheapie ones are slow.
Not necessarily 1.1, just slow.
If when buying, they don't brag about speed, it's not fast. :-)
Re: How can you tell how fast a thumb drive is? - LyleH - 04-16-2007
I have a G4 MDD dual 1.25 with a USB 2.0/Firewire card installed. Using an Emprex 2 GB Flash Drive I got from Fry's about a month ago, I did a rough speed test.
Connected to a powered 1.1 hub with 486mb of pictures - took 12 minutes 47 seconds.
Connected to the USB 2.0 card the same folder took 1 minute and 41 seconds to duplicate it.
I was pleasantly surprised at the USB 2.0 speed. YMMV
Also, my Canon Canoscan 8400F scanner is about 5 times faster when using the USB 2.0 card. Again, YMMV
LyleH