Nine USB 3.0 Flash Drives For Road Warriors

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The best ultra-portable USB 3.0 storage products from 16 to 128 GB square off in a grand comparison. We found wildly disparate transfer rates ranging from 200 MB/s down to a snail’s pace. At the end, though, two products rose to the top of our list.

Benchmark Results: I/O Performance

The I/O performance results are interesting if you want to run multiple applications with direct access to the USB 3.0 drive. Examples are virus scanning (see the Web server pattern for equivalent results), P2P downloads directly to the drive (the file server test pattern), or mixed numerous requests (the workstation test pattern).

Patrick Schmid
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.