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Super Talent 8 GB USB Pico Drive
Testing:
In general, the size of the flash drive has tremendous effect on its performance. Smaller flash drives tend to have slower reading and writing speeds than its bigger counterparts. To test whether or not the Super Talent is also affected by this generality, I decided to test it against other flash drives in my possession. Here are the results that I have obtained from testing the Super Talent 8GB SST Pico flash drive against the 2 GB OCZ Rally 2.0 and the 2 GB SanDisk Cruiser.
Testing Rig |
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| Processor: | Intel Q6600 2.4 GHz @ 3.6 GHz |
| Motherboard: | XFX 680i LT |
| RAM: | Kingston HyperX 9600 @ 800 MHz |
| Power Supply: | Kingwin Mach 1 700 Watt |
| Operating System: | Microsoft Windows Vista Business (Service Pack 1) |
Crystal Disk Mark:
50 MB Test |
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Super Talent |
Rally 2.0 |
SanDisk Cruiser |
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100 MB Test |
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Super Talent |
Rally 2.0 |
SanDisk Cruiser |
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500 MB Test |
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Super Talent |
Rally 2.0 |
SanDisk Cruiser |
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This particular benchmark tests for writing and reading speeds of different size files (512 K and 4 K) across specified parameters which, in this case, were 50, 100, 500 MBs. As you can see in the pictures, the Super Talent drive performed extremely well. This drive blew away the competition in almost every reading category, with speeds approximately 4 MB/s faster than the Rally 2.0 and approximately two times faster than the SanDisk Cruiser.
Unfortunately, the Super Talent did not do as well in the writing tests as the other two drives. During sequential writing the Super Talent drive was approximately 1-3 MB/s faster than its competition. On the 512 K and the 4 K tests, the Super Talent performed on par with the Rally 2.0, but was still two times slower than the SanDisk Cruiser.
The results from this particular test indicate that the Super Talent drive is more suitable for Reading and Writing large files which tend to be written in a more sequential manner.
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