Hi guys,

I bought Transcend 256GB 3.0 USB Flash Drive, it was formatted to FAT32.

I saw the Serial Number from the USB Flash Drive and entered it on the Transcend website and it says it is genuine.

My laptop has only USB 2.0 ports.

I copied 9.83 GB of data on the USB Flash and after that I copied the same data from the USB Flash to the PC again, and all was OK.

Then I deleted all 9.83 GB of data from the USB Flash.

Then I decided to convert the FAT32 to NTFS with Full Format, and it took around 8 min.

I thought the convert time was too fast and tried again to convert to NTFS with Quick Format which took around 45 sec.

Than I decided to do another Full Format to NTFS, this time from Disk Management, and it took around 8 min again.

I expected the Full Format to last around 2 hrs, at least that's how long it will take for a Hard Drive I think.
I don't have much experience with formatting 256 GB USB Flash Drives, maybe it was fast because it was empty? I am not sure.

What do you guys think?
Is 8 minutes normal time to do Full Format on an empty 256 GB USB Flash Drive?

Use rufus to do a full format

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Thanks, I will give it a try.