Memina brags about high performance, but it applies only in some cases. Kingston earns bonus points for high functionality.
Advances in Single Level Cell Flash (SLC-Flash) technology have made themselves apparent in recent months, so even before this project got started, we had no doubts that the Memina stick would live up to its read performance claims of 30 MB/s. The Rocket offers a massive 4 GB of storage space, protects its USB connector intelligently and well, and makes itself at home on your keychain. But the compatibility problems that led to miserable performance still remain unsolved, and that lowers our evaluation of this product.
"High performance isn't everything" is a truth that Kingston drove home eloquently in our testing. Our new benchmark showed that as soon as simultaneous reads and writes get underway, the players separate from the posers. Kingston scored big with its high performance under load, and with its great software functionality - it therefore gets our Must Have award.
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Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.
