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| Thread ID: 79167 | 2007-05-10 10:10:00 | USB Stick is FAT, PC is NTFS | Strommer (42) | Press F1 |
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| 548833 | 2007-05-10 21:32:00 | My desktop and newer laptop are usb 2, but the old laptop is 1.1 (I checked the specs that I had on file). I did a speed test and found that the new "high speed" usb stick is slow: it took 14 minutes to transfer 250 Mb of photos as compared to the RunDisk's 3 minutes. I'll see if they will do an exchange. This will remind me to stick with known brands that are good. |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 548834 | 2007-05-10 21:38:00 | And what did it take 14 mins on?? The PC's with SP2 or the 1.1 laptop? Did either USB flash drive work on the 1.1 laptop (whats on this laptop? 98?) |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 548835 | 2007-05-10 21:58:00 | 14 min with usb 2. I have not used the 1.1 laptop today as yet. | Strommer (42) | ||
| 548836 | 2007-05-10 22:06:00 | For anyone searching for a review: Photofast 1GB USB v2.0 Flash Pen drive super high speed memory card www.pbtech.co.nz This usb pen drive is NOT high speed. Do not buy this - pay a few dollars more and get a trusted brand of usb pen drive, e.g. Kingston or Transcend. I have sent an email to PB Technologies requesting a refund or exchange. |
Strommer (42) | ||
| 548837 | 2007-05-11 00:07:00 | Another thing to watch out for when using NTFS on removable drives is security permissions. You can end up in the situation of not owning (and not having access to) your own files. This isn't too hard to fix, but why not avoid the whole issue and just use FAT32? FAT32 also seems to be less resource-hungry than NTFS, if you care about such things. | Erayd (23) | ||
| 548838 | 2007-05-11 00:21:00 | OK . . . let's kick this debate up a notch or two . What if . . . . . . . . My Kodak digital Camera saves on SD cards and my drive manager says they are all FAT32 . . . . that and plain ol' vanilla FAT are all that the drop down allow in the format choices . Since the camera saves in JPEGS is there any gain in formatting an SD in NTFS for the sake of speed or space used? Will the camera be able to save on those NTFS/SD's then? I'll be I can used the C-Prompt to convert them to NTFS . . . right? :stare: These will only be read on XP/SP2 machines in any case . Sorry for the hijack, but I think this is in the same vein . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 548839 | 2007-05-11 00:48:00 | I don't think I've seen any mention of cameras using anything other than FAT/FAT32. If you're lucky the camera would probably want to reformat the card. | PaulD (232) | ||
| 548840 | 2007-05-11 00:52:00 | IMHO, the only time you'd want to format a USB drive as NTFS is when it's larger than 4GB and you're going to save files to it that are larger than 4GB. I ran into this problem when I tried to save a DVD iso that was 4.2GB to my 8GB stick. There wouldn't be any performance gains from formatting a USB drive as NTFS. You're better off focusing on the read/write speeds and USB interface. Actually, looking at this chart (www.ntfs.com) (at the bottom), you'd take a performance loss because FAT32 is more 'small volume friendly' than NTFS. |
sal (67) | ||
| 548841 | 2007-05-11 01:28:00 | I just tested this USB flash drive (one of those U3 ones) . Which let u run programs from it, without leaving any trace of the program in Windows . Altho I didnt try it without the launchbar files on it . By default, by the looks of it the program you can get for it installs the files (required to bring up the launchbar), formats it in FAT not FAT32 . If u use XP or any other program to reformat it in FAT32, (of course it'll delete both partitions on it (the program for the launchbar, installs a read only partition and another for other files (so u can boot from it) . Then copy DOS files to it . It wont boot if ur BIOS supports booting from USB flash drives . It just brings up a j in the top left of the screen . However, if u do the same thing with the program it came with (which will format it to FAT, and then copy DOS files (and the files needed to install a CD (thats if u want to install a CD from DOS) . It will boot from it . So, NOT all USB flash drives like FAT32 either (If u want to boot from it) . |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 548842 | 2007-05-11 01:33:00 | Ph fat, yo. | Jams (1051) | ||
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