On 14/02/2006, at 7:31 AM, PCI PowerMacs wrote:
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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 10:59:47 -0000 (GMT)
Subject: Re: [PCI] Speed of USB 1.1 Flash Drive
From: "memsom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I am using OS 9. I would like to buy a USB flash drive. I wonder
what is the speed it would be? Like floopy drive? Like 1x CD
ROM? or
even slower? Is there anything I need to aware? Maybe there are
some
drives that Macintosh cannot use them?
Despite what many will say, the speed is not all that slow. It's
slow by
modern measures, but if you have ever used floppies as your main
storage
medium, you'll appreciate the speed is no way as slow as that ;-)
The speed is sort of comparable to a 10MBit network running through
a hub.
Something like that. No way as fast as a hard drive, but fast enough.
Most USB drived are in FAT12, FAT16 or FAT32 format. This is the
filesystem MS DOS and Windows 9x used. A Mac can read the format,
but it
will lose all file associations. You might be able to format to HFS
(Mac
format) but someone else might have more info on that front.
Hope that helps,
M
You can format these sticks how you want (mostly as with zips and
floppies and hds). If you are using it for just Mac to Mac transfers,
use HFS+, if for both Mac and PC, either leave it as bought or format
for Windows or MS or what ever options you have in this direction. I
have two sticks, one in HFS and the other as MS Dos format. They are
both useful (the Mac one is less confusing but hopeless of course for
PC work...)
If you ever get a modern Mac and have a USB 2 card or built in, you
will notice a very dramatic speed increase over the 1.1 (which is
acceptable but a bit finger tapping for large transfers...). On my
Quicksilver, time is warped when I use it, I get younger (and more
handsome for some reason)...
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