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ATP 4GB ToughDrive Flash Drive


Author:  Dan Shannon
Date:  2008.10.05
Topic:  Storage
Provider:  ATP
Manufacturer:  ATP






ATP 4GB ToughDrive Flash Drive

ATP Logo

 

Testing:

HD Tune

About HD Tune Pro

HD Tune is a Hard Disk utility which has the following functions:
  • Benchmark: measures the performance
  • Info: shows detailed information
  • Health: checks the health status by using SMART
  • Error Scan: scans the surface for errors
  • Temperature display
HD Tune may also work with other storage devices such as memory cards, USB sticks, iPods, etc.

The ATP 4GB ToughDrive may look good, but it functions twice as good as it looks. Normally, manufacturers say you may reach speeds up to "X" amount, meaning hypothetically, it could reach these speeds if the conditions were right, but never actually coming close to that speed. The ATP ToughDrive is one of the few that can actually not only reach these speeds, but maintain them. Claiming 30 MB/sec, and averaging around 29.4 MB/sec, you really cant ask for much more.

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ATP ToughDrive

 

USB DRIVE

Average MB/s

ATP Tough Drive
29.4
Super Talent 8GB SST Pico flash drive
29.1
OCZ Rally2 (2gb)
27.9
Corsair Flash Voyager (32GB)
21.2
SanDisk Cruiser
17.7
KingstonDataTraveler 2.0 (4GB)
11.7

 

FlashMemoryToolkit

About FlashMemoryToolkit

  • Info
    The Info function shows various interesting information such as detailed device capacity, file system, operating system and USB configuration.
  • Error Scan
    A fast but reliable function to check the integrity of the device by performing a read or write surface scan.
  • File Recovery
    Quickly and effectively recover files which were lost after a format, hardware failure or an accidental deletion. Many file types are supported.
  • Backup/restore
    In only a few minutes you can make a full backup of your memory device.
  • Backup/restore
    In only a few minutes you can make a full backup of your memory device.
  • Low-level benchmark
    Measure the read and write performance.
  • File benchmark
    Measure how long it will take to read or write files of various lengths to the device.

To assure HD Tune was correct, we ran the more specialized version of HD Tune (made by the same company) called FlashMemoryToolkit. The results were about the same, delivering a blazing fast 29.3 MB/s

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ATP ToughDrive

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