What is maximum reading speed of the SanDisk Cruzer Blade 32GB Flash Drive?

The best way to find out the maximum reading speed of your SanDisk Cruzer Blade 32GB Flash Drive is to run reading tests with a single large block of different block sizes:

sqlio -LS -kR -i1 -f1 -t1 -s60 -p0 ...

If we run SQLIO with above options and different block sizes, we should be able to find the maximum reading speed:

             Throughput   Throughput   Latency
Block Size      MBs/sec      IOs/sec        ms
----------   ----------   ----------   -------
      -b16         9.43       603.78         1
      -b64        15.94       255.19         3
     -b256        16.09        64.36        14
    -b1024        18.55        18.55        53
    -b4096        18.55         4.63       215
   -b16384        18.14         1.13       881
   -b65536        18.33         0.28      3489
  -b262144        18.40         0.07     13931

As you can see, the maximum reading speed, 18.55 MBs/sec is reached with a block size of "-b1024", or 1 MB.

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