Does it matter what the drive's format is? eg: exFAT, NTFS, FAT32?
I got a new 64 GB PNY USB 3.0 drive from Amazon. It was formatted FAT32. Validrive started its calibration and check really fast on read and writes and then slowed down to a crawl. I didn't save the results. Then I formatted the drive with exFAT and ValiDrive Calibration took a long time. and the test started really slow and continued slow.
So it seems like format type might matter.
Also wondering what other external conditions that might affect ValiDrive's speed. eg: computer available memory and other tasks running on the computer, so I tested it on a new, freshly booted, fast computer and calibration took over 90 seconds and the test was extremely slow. Results from that test
Both computes have USB 3.0 ports. The USB drive did test all samples green and showed the drive at full capacity.
Just for reference, tests I've done on a exFAT SanDisk USB 3.0 64GB drive tested blazing fast from start to finish.
I'm wondering if I should send my new PNY drives back to Amazon.
I suppose I could run a bunch more tests and get better understanding, but I bet someone already knows.
Thanks.
-Ron
I got a new 64 GB PNY USB 3.0 drive from Amazon. It was formatted FAT32. Validrive started its calibration and check really fast on read and writes and then slowed down to a crawl. I didn't save the results. Then I formatted the drive with exFAT and ValiDrive Calibration took a long time. and the test started really slow and continued slow.
Code:
read write
samples 1,152 1,152
minimum 981 2,425
maximum 9,170 4,413,135
average 1,855 590,976
So it seems like format type might matter.
Also wondering what other external conditions that might affect ValiDrive's speed. eg: computer available memory and other tasks running on the computer, so I tested it on a new, freshly booted, fast computer and calibration took over 90 seconds and the test was extremely slow. Results from that test
Code:
read write
samples 1,152 1,152
minimum 1,655 3,214
maximum 4,647 5,087,346
average 2,812 812,334
Both computes have USB 3.0 ports. The USB drive did test all samples green and showed the drive at full capacity.
Just for reference, tests I've done on a exFAT SanDisk USB 3.0 64GB drive tested blazing fast from start to finish.
Code:
read write
samples 1,152 1,152
minimum 1,113 2,698
maximum 11,035 32,025
average 1,769 3,965
I'm wondering if I should send my new PNY drives back to Amazon.
I suppose I could run a bunch more tests and get better understanding, but I bet someone already knows.
Thanks.
-Ron