Patriot Xporter Pulse 64GB Very Slow

[JohnF]

Yesterday I purchased a Patriot Xporter Pulse 64GB USB flash drive (part # PSF64GXPPUSB) and I am having the same slow response and transfer issues a lot of other folks seem to be having. I was transferring about 20 gig onto the USB drive and it took over an hour.

The weird thing is I tried to format the drive and start over, and my only choice is exFAT in the standard WinXP disc formatting tool - no FAT32 or NTFS.

Is there some kind of strange factory format that Patriot puts on these USB thumb drives? If so, that is probably my problem.

[Patriot_Ben]

Hello,

Can you please test with ATTO Bench to see what you’re getting?
Atto can be found here:
http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads...k%20v2.46.html

Atto is what we use for our advertised speeds.

Furthermore, was that one 20GB file? Or 20GB's consisting of multiple small files? If it's multiple small files the transfer can be slower because the system needs to address each file individually.

[JohnF]

The transfer involved multiple files.

I ended up finding a utility online that formatted the drive to FAT32 and did another transfer of files which was much faster.

I also ran ATTO before and after the formatting I did and got write speeds in the 7mb/sec before re-formatting and consistently 10mb after formatting. Pre-formatting my read speeds were rarely over 20mb and after formatting they are consistently above 25mb.

So obviously, the format the drive came with from the factory was the problem.

If you have a formatting tool that is specifically made for my Patriot product I would appreciate a link of if you could email it to me in case I need to re-format in the future.

[Patriot_Ben]

Hello,

Here is a tool we generally recommend for our drives:
http://www.patriotmemory.com/partner...re/Restore.rar

[drabun]

and where's the advertised speed? i can't find it on the product page nor in the spec sheet

[Patriot_Ben]

and where's the advertised speed? i can't find it on the product page nor in the spec sheet

Hello,

It's usually around 4-7 MB/s write and 20-27MB/s read.

[BillF951]

I also purchased the Xporter Pulse 64GB USB flash drive (part # PSF64GXPPUSB) last week for file backup. I too am experiencing extremely slow write speeds (400kb/sec - 900kb/sec) when backing up 45GB's of various files. (It's been running since 4:00 pm yesterday) Obviously this is not close to your 4-7 MB/s quoted above. Does this flash drive need special formatting? I can find no information on the product packaging or on your website regarding this. The online technical product datasheet doesn't even quote any electrical spec's. Hopefully, someone can provide some information on improving this speed. (Haven't even got to determining the read speed yet - still writing my files!)
Bill

[Patriot_Ben]

I also purchased the Xporter Pulse 64GB USB flash drive (part # PSF64GXPPUSB) last week for file backup. I too am experiencing extremely slow write speeds (400kb/sec - 900kb/sec) when backing up 45GB's of various files. (It's been running since 4:00 pm yesterday) Obviously this is not close to your 4-7 MB/s quoted above. Does this flash drive need special formatting? I can find no information on the product packaging or on your website regarding this. The online technical product datasheet doesn't even quote any electrical spec's. Hopefully, someone can provide some information on improving this speed. (Haven't even got to determining the read speed yet - still writing my files!)
Bill

Can you run a benchmark with ATTO?

Atto can be found here:
http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads...k%20v2.46.html

If you're transferring multiple small files, this will put a strain on the transfer speeds, since the system needs to address each file.

[BillF951]

I was backing up many many small files (mainly photos). I backed up another 24 GB on a HP 32 GB flash drive in about 2.5 hours while it took over 20 hours to backup about 60 GB on the Xporter Pulse 64 GB. So the Xporter is at least 3x slower than the HP flash drive backing up the similar types of files. I ran the ATTO benchmark tool on both drives plus another Xporter 64 GB drive I had. The Xporter speed on large files is like you state: about 9 MB/s but drops off dramatically for smaller files. The HP flash drive actually benchmarked about half as fast (5 MB/s) for the same large files. Yet the HP flash drive write time on REAL files was at least 3X faster than the Xporter, so what the ATTO is benchmarking doesn't appear to match real life files in my humble opinion (at least for the files I have). So my question remains: is possible to speed up the write speed of the Xporter or is this just the way it is?

[Patriot_Ben]

I was backing up many many small files (mainly photos). I backed up another 24 GB on a HP 32 GB flash drive in about 2.5 hours while it took over 20 hours to backup about 60 GB on the Xporter Pulse 64 GB. So the Xporter is at least 3x slower than the HP flash drive backing up the similar types of files. I ran the ATTO benchmark tool on both drives plus another Xporter 64 GB drive I had. The Xporter speed on large files is like you state: about 9 MB/s but drops off dramatically for smaller files. The HP flash drive actually benchmarked about half as fast (5 MB/s) for the same large files. Yet the HP flash drive write time on REAL files was at least 3X faster than the Xporter, so what the ATTO is benchmarking doesn't appear to match real life files in my humble opinion (at least for the files I have). So my question remains: is possible to speed up the write speed of the Xporter or is this just the way it is?

Make sure that your system has the latest bios, and chipset/usb drivers. What operating system are you using? (If Windows 7) You can try formatting the drive to exFAT, which might give better performance than Fat or NTFS.