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

Benchmarks - Trek ThumbDrive

Even though Flash memory is not as fast as a modern mechanical hard drive, it is not much slower than the Pockey drive when reading. However, write performance only reaches the level of a double speed CD-ROM drive!

This makes it sound terribly slow, but it's actually enough for such a little storage device. In any case, copying a few megaBytes onto the Thumb drive is not a problem.

Is That It For The Benchmarks?

In this case, any further benchmarks would be pretty useless. The access time for both drives is approximately 25 ms, which is acceptable for portable devices, seeing as this rate is still much faster than any CD-ROM or DVD drive. And neither temperature nor noise are issues either. The two devices do not get warm, and they produce only a little noise (Pockey) or no noise at all (ThumbDrive).

I doubt that anybody would seriously consider running applications or temp files of a removable/external drive, so I also saved the WinBench run.