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SuperTalent PicoDrive Gold


Author:  William Halstead
Date:  2008.11.25
Topic:  Storage
Provider:  Super Talent
Manufacturer:  Super Talent






SuperTalent PicoDrive Gold

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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:

Sandra Results 1 Sandra Results 2

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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