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: MP3 File Reads/Writes

With even larger files, such as MP3s between 3 and 10 MB per file, the models from Kingston, OCZ, and LaCie flex their muscles and lead the field.

Again: if you use your USB drive to store data, OCZ's Enyo and LaCie's FastKey cannot be beat. Kingston's HyperX Max 3.0 and the Data Traveler come in second. The other contenders lag far behind.

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.