You generally get what you pay for. That goes for cheap flash drives as
well...

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DaveW

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"JB" <highlinex@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>I just got a 2GB Connection Computers flash drive and tested it several
>ways using HD Tune for benchmarking. Regardless of whether I run it on a
>powered hub, unpowered hub or extender cable, the performance is roughly
>the same.
>
> HD Tune indicates about 8MB/s until it reaches the 45% point, then it
> abruptly drops to about .5MB/s.
>
> I changed the caching for performance in win xp to no avail. Reformatted
> in both FAT and FAT 32 but results varied little.
>
> HD Tune indicates no bad sectors in the quickscan mode.
>
> Is this bad performance just a fact-of-life for cheap drives or am I
> missing something?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Mike
>