Saving time on usb keys
-
I go everyday from home to office and I find very convenient to have all SU datas on usb keys.
But I am having problems with time savings directly on keys
Here is the time saving panel for different keysMo support, secondes , minutes, proportion
120 HD 7, 0'7 1
1 sony 125, 2'5, 18
4 corsair 165, 2'45, 24
8 kingston 630, 10'30, 90Does anybody would know a trick to save in a normal time ?
BTW saving from HD to key is very quick, but I get mixed with all saving
datas when they are on 2 HD and one USB keys.Marc
-
USB is always slower to write. There are HDs with USB connection - they are also way slower than a built-in HD.
-
I would set up a file synchronization tool. That way, only the files that have been modified are copied.
For Windows, SyncToy works well and is easy to set up.
-
Gaieus
I understand easily that USB is slower, but why is it proportionnal to USB size memory
I forgot to indicate: copying the same file from HD to Key is 4s.I would not like to abandon my question because it is a big problem
When you start the file from the key, you always forget it and get stuck for ten minutes at first automatic saving.
I am surprised to be the only one in that case.Marc
-
Since I ruined some AutoCad files years ago (in the DOS days) when trying to work directly from a floppy I have never worked directly from removable media. Typical applications use all kinds of temp files and disk sectors to store their temp data, so using a small removable device when working is risky.
Even recently (while floppies still existed)some of my coworkers had their Word files destroyed in the same way: Open, say, a 300 Kb Word file from a floppy. Word instantly makes a temp file to the same location with the same size. Do a change and save. The original file gets overwritten, and the temp file doubles in size (to allow you to undo). So now your 1.4 Mb floppy has 900 Kb of data. The temp file grows in size for every change you make. Repeat this twice, and the disk is full, and both the original and the temp file are unreadable.
I don't know how SU behaves, but at least the read/write traffic that is needed to update the SKP file when it is open is, I guess, at least three times to what is needed to perform a simple copy operation from Explorer. The old SKB file is deleted, the old SKP file copied to a new SKB file, and the old SKP file is overwritten. It might be evwn worse if you use Autosave. And if the USB key is rather full, the file shuffling will take more time.
I also use USB keys a lot, but I always copy the contents to my hard disk before using it. That gives me a backup file too - to me USB keys seem more brittle than hard disks, a couple of mine have already failed (older and smallish models, though)
Just suggestions.
Anssi
-
Unless youve got a pretty old USB drive, i think the situation you described is unlikely anssi, its pretty rare to get SU models of any considerable size, and with the current capacity of flash drives so high, youd have to try prety hard to fill it up.
In principal, its still a pretty bad idea to save directly to a flash drive, as handy as they are. There's just a lot that can go wrogn and result in you losing lots of work very quickly.
-
OK guys,
I give up working directly on USB key; pity, it was so much pleasant to have my work following me, even on my customer computers.Maybe there are small portable hard disk that are more reliable.
And thank you Anssi for the technical explanation which convinced me quickly and definitly
Marc -
I did some work directly off my usb this weekend. I was kid sitting for my brothers two hell-raisers and after knocking them out I went to work. Thanks SU for having a free version.
My brothers computer is horribly slow to begin with but working off the usb was not too bad.
FYI.
Advertisement