New USB drive became corrupted as copying target

paddyrg

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

Yes, a PNY. It's the 8GB version of this.

What do you think of the benchmark test suggested in #21 here? https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4010155
In the 2nd table it statesthat the 2Gb BUFFALO USB Flash Disk can write at 1763 MB/s. Is this likely? They quote the drive sizes in Gb, which to me is a unit of 128MB.

A genuine PNY will be fine. Did it come from a reliable retailer, or ebay/etc? Speed isn't the problem here, it is corruption

Kernel_Sanders

paddyrg wrote: »

A genuine PNY will be fine. Did it come from a reliable retailer, or ebay/etc? Speed isn't the problem here, it is corruption

I know, it's just something that I was curious about that appeared on the thread informing us about this PNY, which was delivered direct from PC World.
Recuva wants me to have 7.5 GB of free space on my HDD to receive a few hundred MBs of files! Should I try Vale46's suggestion instead?

paddyrg

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

I know, it's just something that I was curious about that appeared on the thread informing us about this PNY, which was delivered direct from PC World.
Recuva wants me to have 7.5 GB of free space on my HDD to receive a few hundred MBs of files! Should I try Vale46's suggestion instead?

Frankly if you don't have 7.5GB free space anywhere, you need an external hard drive, and/or to delete a heckload of old files! It is better to never run disks at capacity as you've discovered, and if you have so little free space, £40 will get you so much extra space you'll be able to breathe again. I'd do recuva first, however not expert in these things.

Kernel_Sanders

paddyrg wrote: »

Frankly if you don't have 7.5GB free space anywhere, you need an external hard drive, and/or to delete a heckload of old files! It is better to never run disks at capacity as you've discovered, and if you have so little free space, £40 will get you so much extra space you'll be able to breathe again.

I'm not at all sure I had 7.5GB free when I bought it new! Since then I've added SP2&3 and a few programmes to the 20GB HDD. I've shifted several GBs of videos, pics and PDFs plus Star Office off it over the last few months but the space just gets used up by I-don't-know-what (have done malware scans). Even Drivespacio can't account for the usage. I'm not spending any more on a 9-y-o PC, so I'm going to do a factory restore. If it's still going strong when XP becomes unsupported, I'll dual boot with Linux.

paddyrg

Kernel_Sanders wrote: »

I'm not at all sure I had 7.5GB free when I bought it new! Since then I've added SP2&3 and a few programmes to the 20GB HDD. I've shifted several GBs of videos, pics and PDFs plus Star Office off it over the last few months but the space just gets used up by I-don't-know-what (have done malware scans). Even Drivespacio can't account for the usage. I'm not spending any more on a 9-y-o PC, so I'm going to do a factory restore. If it's still going strong when XP becomes unsupported, I'll dual boot with Linux.

A £40 external hard drive though will mean you just copy off what you need to save, then it will still be useful with whatever you get to replace it. You can even use it with the Linux-ed box (although do note some Linuces(?) take similar system resources to Windows - just being free doesn't necessarily make it work on old hardware betterx unless you pick a deliberately cut-down Linux build, not the latest Ubuntu for instance)