USB 3.0 On A Stick: Super Talent's RAIDDrive 64 GB

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Wondering how fast USB 3.0 runs compared to USB 2.0 and eSATA? We take three flash-based thumb drives and run them through our storage benchmarks. We don't expect to see the interface's 500 MB/s maximum any time soon, but the results might surprise you.

Benchmark Results: Access Time And I/O Performance

Write access time is much longer on the eSATA and USB 2.0 drives but extremely quick on USB 3.0.

The RAIDDrive does very well in our file server benchmark. A conventional 3.5” hard drive delivers less than 200 I/O operations per second. Quick SSDs can be a few times faster than the RAIDDrive.