Bone Collection USB Flash Drives from X-tremeGeek

Written by: Artiom on Aug. 14, 2009

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HD Tune 3.0

Looks aside the performance of the BONE Collection drives was not as stellar as I was expecting. The drives performed relatively well with data access rates of up to 20 MB/s for the Dinosaur and the Penguin and up to 16 for the Bone, however, these rates leave much to be desired as the newest drives are performing close to 30 MB/s . The performance in the random access rates were also average relative to today’s standards.

Flash memory access times are extremely quick for almost any drive available on the market. The drives did not disappoint in this aspect. The Penguin and the Dinosaur came in at 0.7 ms access tune while the Bone was .1 ms behind at 0.8 ms.

Dinosaur Driver

Penguin Driver

Bone Driver

Crystal Disk Mark 2.2

The drives also showed similar performance in the Crystal Disk Mark tests. Sequential reads and writes for Dinosaur and Penguin were in at or about 20 MB/s while the Bone was at 17 MB/s. Much like in every drive the performance with the random 4k read and writes were the worst, however interestingly enough, the drives seemed to perform better at these functions while dealing with file sizes that are 50 MB. The drives exhibited relatively the same performance for file sizes between 100 MB and 1000 MB.

Dinosaur Driver