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Why when I transfer files to my DiskOnKey there's a halt after each transfer?

Why when I transfer files to my DiskOnKey there's a halt after each transfer?

I have a Corsair Voyager 32GB DiskOnKey, and when I transfer files to it, they're written very fast, but the move operation halts after each file. Write, halt, write, halt for each file written. I was wondering what could cause it? Usually it's done by AntiVirus software, but I also have an external HDD in which this doesn't happen. All of the basic Vista protections are off. The only thing I've changed in the device itself is reformat it with NTFS with a block size of 512 bytes. But I haven't ran the device with any other file system, so I don't know if this is the problem.

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"This may be related to write caching. I think the default setting pre-XP was for flash devices to have write-caching enabled, which makes the write operation appear to finish quickly, but in reality it's cached quickly and the actual writing takes place in the background. This was why you could easily have file corruption if you copied a large amount of data to the flash drive and removed it (without stopping the device using the safe removal dialog) before the background writing had completed.

This was changed in XP, write caching is disabled by default, so that what you see in the user interface (e.g. file copy dialog) matches what is actually happening, i.e. when the copy dialog is done, so is the writing. This also means less chance of file(system) corruption, unless you happen to unplug the drive while a copy operation is still in progress.

You can check this in device manager, expand ""Disk drives"" and double-click the device that corresponds to your flash drive. Take a look at the ""Policies"" tab and I'm pretty sure you'll see that it is set to ""Optimize for quick removal""."