Five USB 3.0 Flash Drives For Your Pocket
Do you carry around large amounts of data? Do you need to transfer it between devices in a hurry? We're examining five new USB 3.0-based portable storage solutions that might fit your needs. This time around, the focus is on maximizing portability.
Benchmark Results: Sustained Reads
What we saw in the previous page’s graphs is more easily represented in charts, with TurboHDD boosting PQI’s first-place finish upwards by exactly 31.5 MB/s
Walton Chaintech again takes second place in writes, falling only 11% behind the leading OCZ Enyo. The S533-E comes in at a whopping 50% performance deficit, putting PQI behind OCZ by exactly 12.6%.
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rohitbaran The heavy-duty gaming hardware used for today’s test is coincidental, as it was already set up on the bench for an upcoming graphics test. It includes Gigabyte’s high-flying X58A-UD9 motherboard.
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rohitbaran BTW, I liked Super Talent Super crypt, despite being slower than OCZ and PQI, it is the size I would be comfortable carrying in my pocket.Reply -
huron I know these technologies are more toward the "bleeding edge," but it's nice to know that manufacturers see it as enough of a market to start making products. Maybe USB 3.0 will make it mainstream relatively soon.Reply -
Would you be able to use the 128GB as a boot drive for win7 and how would they fall in price/performance between sata ssd and a VelociRaptor?Reply
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liquidsnake718 can you play a game like crysis or even warcraft 2 well straight out of this ssd with a no cd crack?Reply -
irh_1974 reclusiveorcWould you be able to use the 128GB as a boot drive for win7 and how would they fall in price/performance between sata ssd and a VelociRaptor?I have been saying this to people for years, that one day you will have your whole PC installation on a flash drive. Just plug into a PC, boot from the flash drive and everything is there.Reply -
bCubed Too bad it will still be some time before usb 3.0 will become mainstream and even longer for extremely good drives to come outReply
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