Old relic from Australia, Gigabyte 256MB USB 2.0 Flash Drive

last two years when I first got my idisk Tiny 256mb, the performance is awesome with superb random/read/write. This really increse my confident on pretec product. And it pass my windows vista readyboost flawlessly.
Last nite I purposely go order another Tiny 1gb, but this time.... very dissapointed. Not only fail my vista readyboost test, but the performance is terrriblly bad.

benchmark for 1GB

This post has been edited by ychwang: Mar 24 2007, 02:35 PM


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is that ur 1gb or 256mb benchmark?

this is 1gb one

wah ... how much you got it for, pls?

This is my Bloody Pendrive Transcend JetFlash 160 2GB

This post has been edited by Faint: Mar 24 2007, 03:22 PM

Pretec iDisk Tiny 1GB

[3rd unit from the left, in my screenshot below]

(i think bought it around 2-3 years ago ... couldn't find the receipt )


*One thing can be sure. Manufacturers sometimes uses different Flash type and controller. That's why there's no identical units between batches or time period*


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u have all the pretec pendrives..do u own them or sells them?? quite a collection u have

hi there.
i was just wondering y is your Transcend 160 High Speed pendrive write speed is just 3447kb\sec.

i tought is should be near to 8000kb\sec.
stated from the transcend website.
dat doens't mean a high spped pendrive then.

im using one to.
the transcend 110 high speed 2gb pendrive hav the similiar results.


benchmark



Transcend Jetflash 110 High Speed 2GB

do you want to sell your iDisk Tiny 1gb?

I liked Pretec because of their *tiny* design ...

If I know Pretec Wave is slow, I wouldn't buy it. I thought since Pretec Tiny is moderately fast, Wave would be faster ... heck, it's much much slower! They may have chosen MLC flash to achieve 2GB size (that time), hence the low speed ...

FYI, Iomega is the *1st* company that introduces this 'swivel design' ... I bought it at Singapore ~3 years ago in a computer fair ... Later I saw Pretec introduced their Tiny using the same design, so I immediately bought it (since 1GB that time was considered 'huge' and I wanted more storage to store my files/apps) ...

The ultra-tiny pendrive (Kingmax SuperStick and Pretec Diamond) was because I wanted to hang it or put pendrive in my wallet as a full-time backup. Also, I enjoyed 'showing-off' my ultra-tiny drives to girls

the only 'big' pendrive I have is Corsair Voyager GT but since it's extremely fast, I can forgive it for its size ... 4GB and 31/22 read/write speed is the best pendrives I've seen and used so far ... NO REGRET!!



p/s: I have another drive, which I've *sacrificed by opening the plastic casing to see what Flash chip they were using* due to my absolute frustration: InnoDisk 2GB ... I warranty-ed it 2x 'cuz it's not stable and the file system always corrupted! Everytime I see InnoDisk and its cheap price, I stayed away ... BAD BAD EXPERIENCE!

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Added on March 25, 2007, 9:06 amhi bro, sorry, I dont plan to sell it ... i'm still using it as a tool to transfer files to/from other computers ... think of it as an "innoculation unit"

likewise I wrote above, it's particularly useful when ur friend's computer is infected with viruses and tries to infect ur pendrive once connected ...

if i used my 4GB VOyager GT, darn, it'll practically infect all my EXE files there

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the kingmax and the idisk diamond, the size has a very big gap, how about speed on both of it??

How much u get it? shop? i only got jf150 1gb now, 72x write speed. i looking for 2gb like urs.

2Gb should be around RM110.

How u know? coz his one is a high speed one ler.

poor read/write speed ... but it's not my main purpose to get them ... i wanted them extremely tiny for portability

I tied my Kingmax SuperStick to my handphone And iDisk Diamond in my wallet (no use for now cuz it's just 128MB only)

I got SuperStick after I bought iDisk Diamond due to capacity ...

There were times when my iDisk Diamond 'saved' me all the troubles when I didn't bring my other drives with me ... 128MB is just nice to backup documents and stuffs ... but not enought o backup ur portable apps

just want to ask u guys,my USB 2.0 cannot run at USB 2.0 whenever i plug it to my pc,everytime i plug in ,got windows pop up Hi-speed usb device plugged in to non-high speed USB port,then it ask me to plug to hi-speed usb port

i had oledi set to HI-speed USB at BIOS,my mobo is fully support usb2.0

why i cannot use it?
really slow to copy a file
it takes about 1 hour to copy 5GB of data into external harddisk

Wat mb u using now?

asus p5be-plus

1) Did u plugged the drive behind the mobo or the front casing ports?

2) If front casing ports, does it connected directly to the mobo header/pins?

3) What drive (brand/model) are you using?

4) What OS?

5) You wrote you're using external hdd. Is the enclosure rated full-speed or high-speed? Do note that the internal circuitry inside the enclosure may not be high-speed, thus the error msg.