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: Small File Reads/Writes

Things change in the benchmark for small files in the 1 KB range. OCZ’s Enyo is no longer a leader, although Kingston’s HyperX Max 3.0 and the LaCie FastKey still are. However, overall performance is substantially reduced across the board. In writing such small files, the field is again dominated by the usual suspects. PQI’s and Patriot’s drives deliver embarrassing performance.

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.