Storage Solutions Sandisk cruzer micro 4gb pathetic transfer speed

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hello guys, the above item was bought by my friend a couple of days back. I had a good opinion about sandisk drives , since most people opt for sandisk flash drives and have read some good reviews about them. Dont know on what basis these reviews were given.

When i checked the transfer speed of this one i was very shocked.

Guys !!!, It takes 2.5 minutes to complete a transfer of a 700mb divx file . So WTF. This is dead slow when compared to my kingston datatraveller-II 2 GB where the transfer finishes in 1 min.

What happens is, the progress bar reaches the end in about 1.5 minute and stays there for about another minute. Is this natural for this one to act like this ? or is the quality been compromised ? Or is this a bad chip which deserves any replacement ?.

I am able to format it and can copy files , but its slow.

Pour your ideas guys...
 
This happens when you've formatted it into NTFS. Have you ?
anfjavid said:
What happens is, the progress bar reaches the end in about 1.5 minute and stays there for about another minute. Is this natural for this one to act like this ? or is the quality been compromised ? Or is this a bad chip which deserves any replacement ?.
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What happens is, the progress bar reaches the end in about 1.5 minute and stays there for about another minute. Is this natural for this one to act like this ? or is the quality been compromised ? Or is this a bad chip which deserves any replacement ?.
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You must be talking about the explorer copy dialog, right? I've been using Teracopy for 1.5 years now, so I wouldn't know, but imho explorer's file transfer is lacking. Download the portable version of Teracopy free version and try copying the file, see if it changes anything.

I use a Sandisk pen drive, I never had this sort of problem, not with Teracopy anyway. Also, does it happen to all the files you copy (the slowing down at the end)?
 
nixy_15 said:
This happens when you've formatted it into NTFS. Have you ?
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It has nothing to do with a drive being formatted with NTFS. NTFS is slower, but not of the scale OP is talking about.

@OP - Sandisk is a big firm with numerous products. There are two very simple explanations for the issue you've seen and neither means that Sandisk makes bad products.
It could be possible that the model you purchased by default has slower chips. On the other hand you could also be stuck with a one off dud in which case an RMA would help.
 
This is weird...i have a kingston pendrive and when i tried copying like 3000 verysmall files...it took half an hour!!! faced a same problem with my transcend too..these pendrives re close to 2 yrs old....then got a new sandisk pendrive...the data got transferred in minutes...
so sandisk was best
I have a doubt though...does age affect speed of pendrive?
 
He is facing issue in all the files. Especially in movie files it takes a hell a lot of time. The transfer speed very well depends on the size of the file and not the extension of file IMO. He tried copying the same movie file in the kingston 2gb drive which is NTFS formatted and it finishes in within a minute, whereas sandisk takes 2.5 minutes. He faces differences in other file types too.

the sandisk came with fat32 formatted only . Due to these speed issues, he formatted to NTFS but no use. But my kingston 2gb , became even faster after formatting it to NTFS...

And deltapage.com states sandisk flash drives give 5 yr warranty. But whereas according to the website and the product package it is only 2yrs warranty. WTF :@. Dont know why the hell this delta peripheral sucker makes false statements like this. Actually without noticing the warranty my friend bought it and tampered the packing. relying on the statement made by deltapage he thought that sandisk gives 5 yr warranty.
 
small tip : - when copying very small files to a PD (saved web pages) ..compress them to rar/zip and use store as compression method in winrar
 
haider_up32 said:
small tip : - when copying very small files to a PD (saved web pages) ..compress them to rar/zip and use store as compression method in winrar
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Thats ok, even large files are not transfered fast . That only matters.
 
I have suggested him to RMA but before RMA'ing it he wants to check another drive to ensure whether this is the nature of this product or an issue exists . So he is ready to wait for sometime until any of his friends get it.
 
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