Smart and Universal: Flotec's Pockey Drive vs. Trek's ThumbDrive

Test Setup

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Test System
CPU Intel Celeron, 500 MHz
Motherboard Asus CUSL2, i815 chipseton-board USB controller
RAM 128 MB SDRAM, 7ns (Crucial/Micron or Wichmann Workx ) CL2
IDE Controller i815 UltraDMA/100 Controller (ICH2)
Graphics Card i815 On-Board Graphics
Network 3COM 905TX PCI 100 Mbit
Operating Systems Windows 98 SE 4.10.2222 AWindows 2000 Pro 5.00.2195 SP1
Settings
Graphics Driver Intel i815 Reference Driver 4.2
IDE Driver Intel Busmaster DMA Drivers 6.03
DirectX Version 8.0a
Screen Resolution 1024x768, 16 Bit, 85 Hz Refresh

Benchmarks - Flotec Pockey Drive

The maximum data transfer rate is ~900 kB/s. The hard drive could easily perform better than 15 MB/s, but, as mentioned before, the USB interface is limited to 12 MBit/s (~ 1.5 MB/s). If you want to copy more than one gigabyte at a time, I'd recommend a firewire solution, such as the drives from Western Digital, which have much higher transfer speeds.

Patrick Schmid
Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)

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.