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SuperTalent PicoDrive Gold
Features
Now that we're done ogling the exterior, let's take a look at what this drive has to offer under the hood, according to SuperTalent:
| Feature | Interpretation |
| Weight less than 6g | Light, as you'd expect from a drive of this size. |
| Up to 30MB/s (200X) data transfer rate | Impressive speed, if true, testing will prove or disprove this. |
| Fully compatible with USB 2.0 and 1.1 | Backwards compatibility is always a plus. |
| Water resistant | Useful if your drive accidentally goes through the wash or drops into your drink. |
| Powered by USB bus - no external power is required | Par for the course. Though where you'd plug in an external power supply on a drive this size is an interesting question... |
| Durable solid-state storage - 10 years data retention | A nice feature, though the limited number of writes allowed on flash memory will render the drive useless long before this becomes an issue. |
| Hot Plug & Play – enable you to install and uninstall Pico anytime | Again, par for the course. |
| Capless; rugged | No cap or case to lose, good for the forgetful sort. |
Testing
For evaluating the performance of this drive, we ran the Pico-C Gold through a number of benchmarks designed to simulate real-world use.
First up, SiSoftware's SANDRA:
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As you can see, performance was somewhat lackluster on small files when compared to the reference drives. With files 2MB and larger, however, the Pico's performance was much improved.
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