Re: [PLUG] Micro Center Flash Drives?

[PaulNM <plug@paulscrap.com>]

On 04/28/2016 12:21 PM, Greg Helledy wrote:
> My experience with them is from 10+ years ago, but I got a couple and
> they worked flawlessly for years.  I eventually replaced them because
> capacities had increased...I probably still have them in a box with
> other retired tech bits and pieces.
>
> My impression was they were slightly slower than equivalents from the
> big name brand at the time (SanDisk, I think?) but not enough for me to
> care about.

Yeah, you'd never be able to use them for Window's ReadyBoost. :) 
They're pretty good if you're copying a few large files, but do slow 
down a bit with lots and lots of smaller files. It's been ages since 
I've really done a speed test though, or copy everything onto a freshly 
formated drive. I usually use rsync or something similar to update the 
contents of my 32 and 64GB drives.

Adding another distro to my MultiSystem drive happens pretty quickly, 
though. It's only takes a minute or two.

The big test case for me is my wsusoffline collection. It's some 5,000 
files/folders taking up over 26GB. It used to be worse (especially back 
in WinXP) with many more files. (Win 10 changed quite a few things in 
regards to updates. In particular they bundle them up now.)


- PaulNM
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