What is maximum reading speed of the SanDisk Cruzer Micro 8GB Flash Drive?

The best way to find out the maximum reading speed of your SanDisk Cruzer Micro 8GB 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        14.61       935.29         0
      -b64        25.43       406.93         2
     -b256        24.81        99.27         9
    -b1024        25.23        25.23         9
    -b4096        25.67         6.41       155
   -b16384        26.44         1.65       604
   -b65536        26.36         0.41      2426
  -b262144        25.76         0.10      9935

As you can see, the maximum reading speed, 26.44 MBs/sec is reached with a block size of "-b16384", or 16 MB.

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