Allocation Unit Size For Fast Write

Hi
What if i want to use my pendrive or memory card as a temporary files storage device. Like temp IDM files.
What will be format and allocation size of my card or PD.
I used FAT32(default), NTFS with some random AU sizes but write speed is not good.
It slows down whole pc.
Thanks in advance.
Answer #1
no difference to be honest in speeds
Answer #2
mp3police replied: no difference to be honest in speeds
Rubbish.
Pendrives come in all varying read/write speeds.
To OP – if you have no internal hdd space you can use, then get an external USB hdd, it will be much faster than a pendrive.
Answer #3
Why?
Answer #4
Check this one.
http://cquirke.mvps.org/ntfs.htm
Answer #5
any USB drive is much slower than your internal drive
Answer #6
the Meerkat replied: mp3police replied: no difference to be honest in speeds
Rubbish.
Pendrives come in all varying read/write speeds.
To OP - if you have no internal hdd space you can use, then get an external USB hdd, it will be much faster than a pendrive.
i dont see him talking about variants of pen drives
he wants to know is NTFS or FAT32 faster write speeds
in this case neither they are basicly the same
its all on the flash storage
Answer #7
the Meerkat replied: mp3police replied: no difference to be honest in speeds
Rubbish.
Pendrives come in all varying read/write speeds.
To OP - if you have no internal hdd space you can use, then get an external USB hdd, it will be much faster than a pendrive.
I dont want to use HDD as temp storage.
Let me rephrase m purpose. I just want to write “temp” files into Non Movable Data storage drive.
My net speed is 2mbps and i get 230kbps avg.
So each time HDD writes only 230kb of data resulting in long time damage.
edwoodweb replied: any USB drive is much slower than your internal drive
I know but its can write at least 300kbps
mp3police replied: the Meerkat replied: mp3police replied: no difference to be honest in speeds
Rubbish.
Pendrives come in all varying read/write speeds.
To OP - if you have no internal hdd space you can use, then get an external USB hdd, it will be much faster than a pendrive.
i dont see him talking about variants of pen drives
he wants to know is NTFS or FAT32 faster write speeds
in this case neither they are basicly the same
its all on the flash storage
I used this procedure once but I have to format my PD and now i am not getting those speeds.
Only 80kbps instead of 230kbps
Answer #8
Most of the mates here are right in what they are saying. Let’s see that together…
First of all, if I understood right about the “long time damage”, we all get a bit paranoid about this (me included) from time to time… But the bottom line is that this is exactly what your HDD is supposed to do… Write and read… Even if you IO all day long, the HDD, if not defective, will live much more after you decide to change it for a new one.
If you check online you’ll see what it’s lifetime is and by doing the math you’ll be surprised…
There is a thing with PDs… There may be some out there that are fast enough (I own some) but they ALL suffer from one thing… Write operations of small sized files.. Try it yourself, copy a bunch of small images to your PD and then one big file and compare the speed difference… That is why you are getting such low speeds…NTFS or FAT32 doesn’t make much of a difference in speeds…
IDM uses a TEMP folder where it writes all the segments of the file you download. After it finishes, it merges all the file into one and writes it to the destination you have selected.
If you want to make the whole thing faster you can set the IDM’s TEMP folder and SAVE folder to different physical HDDs. Not different partitions… That is the only thing with which I saw a difference to the better…
Answer #9
If you want more write speed, then go highest possible. The new 4MB allocation size is a lot faster.
Answer #10
countStrahd replied: Most of the mates here are right in what they are saying. Let's see that together...
First of all, if I understood right about the "long time damage", we all get a bit paranoid about this (me included) from time to time... But the bottom line is that this is exactly what your HDD is supposed to do... Write and read... Even if you IO all day long, the HDD, if not defective, will live much more after you decide to change it for a new one.
If you check online you'll see what it's lifetime is and by doing the math you'll be surprised...
There is a thing with PDs... There may be some out there that are fast enough (I own some) but they ALL suffer from one thing... Write operations of small sized files.. Try it yourself, copy a bunch of small images to your PD and then one big file and compare the speed difference... That is why you are getting such low speeds...NTFS or FAT32 doesn't make much of a difference in speeds...
IDM uses a TEMP folder where it writes all the segments of the file you download. After it finishes, it merges all the file into one and writes it to the destination you have selected.
If you want to make the whole thing faster you can set the IDM's TEMP folder and SAVE folder to different physical HDDs. Not different partitions... That is the only thing with which I saw a difference to the better...
Its my temporary precaution. I have ordered SSD but till then i am using 1Tb as my primary drive as my last 320gb got damaged.
Already recovered bad sector from 1TB drive from HDD re-generator. That makes me worry.
Even though its part of function of HDD assigning it to IO will substantially reduce HDD’s work as my main purpose till ssd arrives is to watch and download movies.Right?
Anyway after 2-3 attempts for different AU sizes i found one that works.
Answer #11
if you have more than 3gig memory try disabling the page file & system restore for now
that will save disk reads/writes
also disable any unneeded startup apps in msconfig
Answer #12
problem is solved
thank you all of you guys