USB 3.0 Flash Drive Roundup
by Zach Throckmorton on July 29, 2011 11:15 AM EST- Posted in
- Storage
- Kingston
- USB 3.0
- Patriot
- Gadgets
- ADATA
- Super Talent
- Flash Drive
- Mushkin
Iometer sequential read performance benchmarks
Similar to the small file writes, we see the USB 3.0 drives immediately out in front of the USB 2.0 drives, with Super Talent's RC8 way ahead of the group.
Interestingly, the Super Talent Express DUO moves to the vanguard.
Again, similarly to the sequential write tests, the Patriot Supersonic Magnum pulls ahead with file sizes larger than 512KB.
The same performance hierarchy as above is maintained with 1MB file size reads, though the two USB 2.0 drives switch positions (however, the difference between their performances remains negligible).
The pattern seems clear at this point.
No surprises here. This hierarchy remains up to the 1GB file size limit of Iometer.
Synthetic benchmarks like the ones we've provided from Iometer are useful in evaluating storage products. They do not, however, paint an entirely clear picture. To better understand real-world performance, check the next page!
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peterpan783 - Saturday, April 12, 2014 - link
Very informative, but I would have preferred to see the performance indicated in megabytes per second, and not in time. I can see whatever drive took whatever seconds more or less, but that doesn't tell me anything about the actual speed. USB flash drive performance is measured in MB/s.XmppTextingBloodsport - Saturday, March 19, 2016 - link
In the future I hope you will employ better cross platform considerations like FS:UDF
exFAT
And seek an official manuafacturer answer for
* ideal Block Size (or Allocation Unit)
** for 2 or 3 primary use cases
** large media files
** mix of text and media files
** single large file
* ideal [re]formatting method (_not_ requiring a microsoft license)
** to partition or not to partition
** entire drive VeryCrypt (the new incarnation of TrueCrypt)
* how much [cheating] cache the drive has
* manufacturer's tools availability beyond windows
** turning off feckless led