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Corsair Flash Memory seems OUTRAGEOUS wasteful of memory space...!
Corsair Flash Memory seems OUTRAGEOUS wasteful of memory space...!
Hi I have a brand new Corsair Flash Voyager Memory Drive (2GB). It seems to be ASTONNISHINGLY extravagant at storing data. Apparently I have filled up the ENTIRE flash drive (2GB ) with just 0.98 GB (1,053,551,746 bytes) of data. [ It is taking up 1.90 GB (2,050,129,920 bytes) on the Flash drive...] Have I formatted the drive in the wrong way or something?! There are only 41,292 files located in 862 folders. Whereas on my Hard disk 1.08 GB (1,170,048,529 bytes) of fits into 1.18 GB (1,269,673,984 bytes) on the disk which is 42,336 files in 991 folders. Thus I make it that a mere 8.5% of hard disk space is wasted on my Hard disk, whereas my Corsair Flash drive appears to be wasting about 49% !!! - Is this normal? - Am I doing anything wrong? - Is there anything I can do (apart from Zipping everything which will take hours & hours!) Ship Shiperton Henethe P.S. I am using Windows2000 |
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Corsair Flash Memory seems OUTRAGEOUS wasteful of memory space...!
ship wrote:
Corsair Flash Memory seems OUTRAGEOUS wasteful of memory space...! Hi I have a brand new Corsair Flash Voyager Memory Drive (2GB). It seems to be ASTONNISHINGLY extravagant at storing data. Apparently I have filled up the ENTIRE flash drive (2GB ) with just 0.98 GB (1,053,551,746 bytes) of data. [ It is taking up 1.90 GB (2,050,129,920 bytes) on the Flash drive...] Have I formatted the drive in the wrong way or something?! There are only 41,292 files located in 862 folders. Whereas on my Hard disk 1.08 GB (1,170,048,529 bytes) of fits into 1.18 GB (1,269,673,984 bytes) on the disk which is 42,336 files in 991 folders. Thus I make it that a mere 8.5% of hard disk space is wasted on my Hard disk, whereas my Corsair Flash drive appears to be wasting about 49% !!! - Is this normal? - Am I doing anything wrong? - Is there anything I can do (apart from Zipping everything which will take hours & hours!) Ship Shiperton Henethe P.S. I am using Windows2000 Ship, You can analyse the disk with my ShowMan program: http://www.david-taylor.myby.co.uk/s...k.html#ShowMan Select between: allocated, nominal and slack space. A quick sum suggests wasted space is 1GB / 41000 files, or 24KB per file. If you have formatted the drive FAT-16, then the cluster size is 32KB, so on average you would expect a waster space of 16KB per file, but if the majority your files are small ones (less than 16KB), then the wasted space could be more, up to a maximum of 32767 bytes for a 1-byte file. Try formatting FAT-32 instead. David |
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Corsair Flash Memory seems OUTRAGEOUS wasteful of memory space...!
You sure its the real thing ?
not some steroid pumped Sony 2 GB Micro vault ? "ship" wrote in message oups.com... Corsair Flash Memory seems OUTRAGEOUS wasteful of memory space...! Hi I have a brand new Corsair Flash Voyager Memory Drive (2GB). It seems to be ASTONNISHINGLY extravagant at storing data. Apparently I have filled up the ENTIRE flash drive (2GB ) with just 0.98 GB (1,053,551,746 bytes) of data. [ It is taking up 1.90 GB (2,050,129,920 bytes) on the Flash drive...] |
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Corsair Flash Memory seems OUTRAGEOUS wasteful of memory space...!
Yeah I'm pretty sure it IS the real thing - it came in Corsair packaging etc. which I bought from Micro Direct (in the UK.) Though I'm not completely sure how to check?! Ship Shiperton Henethe [BnH] wrote: You sure its the real thing ? not some steroid pumped Sony 2 GB Micro vault ? "ship" wrote in message oups.com... Corsair Flash Memory seems OUTRAGEOUS wasteful of memory space...! Hi I have a brand new Corsair Flash Voyager Memory Drive (2GB). It seems to be ASTONNISHINGLY extravagant at storing data. Apparently I have filled up the ENTIRE flash drive (2GB ) with just 0.98 GB (1,053,551,746 bytes) of data. [ It is taking up 1.90 GB (2,050,129,920 bytes) on the Flash drive...] |
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Corsair Flash Memory seems OUTRAGEOUS wasteful of memory space...!
Yeah I'm pretty sure it IS the real thing - it came in Corsair packaging etc. which I bought from Micro Direct (in the UK.) Though I'm not completely sure how to check?! Ship Shiperton Henethe [BnH] wrote: You sure its the real thing ? not some steroid pumped Sony 2 GB Micro vault ? "ship" wrote in message oups.com... Corsair Flash Memory seems OUTRAGEOUS wasteful of memory space...! Hi I have a brand new Corsair Flash Voyager Memory Drive (2GB). It seems to be ASTONNISHINGLY extravagant at storing data. Apparently I have filled up the ENTIRE flash drive (2GB ) with just 0.98 GB (1,053,551,746 bytes) of data. [ It is taking up 1.90 GB (2,050,129,920 bytes) on the Flash drive...] |
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Corsair Flash Memory seems OUTRAGEOUS wasteful of memory space...!
Try formatting FAT-32 instead Like er any idea how to do that?! I tried reinstalling the utility that came with it but it kept crashing and finally I got Windows(2000 Pro) to do it for me... Are there any recent updates of the Utility for Windows2000 ? Ship Shiperton Henethe |
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Corsair Flash Memory seems OUTRAGEOUS wasteful of memory space...!
ship wrote:
Try formatting FAT-32 instead Like er any idea how to do that?! I tried reinstalling the utility that came with it but it kept crashing and finally I got Windows(2000 Pro) to do it for me... Are there any recent updates of the Utility for Windows2000 ? Ship Shiperton Henethe Type "help format" at the command prompt. FORMAT volume /FS:FAT32 David |
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Corsair Flash Memory seems OUTRAGEOUS wasteful of memory space...!
Okay thanks I'll try that...
Ship Shiperton Henethe |
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Corsair Flash Memory seems OUTRAGEOUS wasteful of memory space...!
I thought it was going to work but then after I copied my mailbox.pst
over it suddenly started giving I/O errors. So I have reformatted with the "Corsair Flash Voyager Utility" (having downloaded and reinstalled it). After MUCH hassle and archiving have managed to compress my data down to 1.07 GB (1,153,020,975 bytes) which takes up 1.35 GB (1,457,389,568 bytes) on the Flash drive (That's 13,385 files in 563 folders, fwiw.) - i.e about 20.7% wasted. Btw, how can I work out what type of formatting is in place on the Flash drive - it's definitely FAT but 16 or 32...? Ship Shiperton Henethe |
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Corsair Flash Memory seems OUTRAGEOUS wasteful of memory space...!
ship wrote:
[] Btw, how can I work out what type of formatting is in place on the Flash drive - it's definitely FAT but 16 or 32...? Ship, I don't have a FAT-32 disk here to check, but either: CHKDSK volume and see what the "type of file system" and "allocation unit size" say or: right-click the disk, Properties. See what "File system" type is reported. More complex: Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management will list the file system for all drives. David |
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