usb flash drive transfer speeds

FoxEye · 11 Mar 2010 at 21:47

Fastest USB pen drives I've found are 30mb/s read and 25mb/s write. Those are something like £60, so not for me.

Down to the next tier of pricing, the best I could find for around £10-15 was 20mb/s read and 8mb/s write (Transcend V30 8gb). 8gb is the lowest capacity I can buy for my needs.

A well-known auction site seller is listing an 8gb drive with read 20mb/s and write 14mb/s... but... no brand, no model number, and from Honk Kong. It sounds like a gamble to me!

What I've found tho is that the majority of commodity drives are still slow as pond water. Reads of 10mb/s and writes of 3mb/s are common on most drives. Sad, really.

So anyone found a good, zippy drive that didn't cost the Earth lately?

FoxEye · 12 Mar 2010 at 14:00

Found this - very useful list of USB devices with user-submitted speeds.

http://usbspeed.nirsoft.net/?g=8gb

Semple · 12 Mar 2010 at 14:12

My 16gb Sandisk i bought from Amazon a month or so ago for £18 has speeds of 30mb/s. Are you plugging it directly into a USB socket from the motherboard? or are you using some kind of extension cable?

FoxEye · 12 Mar 2010 at 16:13

Semple said:
My 16gb Sandisk i bought from Amazon a month or so ago for £18 has speeds of 30mb/s. Are you plugging it directly into a USB socket from the motherboard? or are you using some kind of extension cable?

I haven't bought one yet....

What are you getting for write speed?

bremen1874 · 12 Mar 2010 at 17:01

The Verbatim 8GB TUFF-'N'-TINY is worth a look.

They're fairly cheap and when I tested I got a 30.85 MB/Sec read and a 13.77 MB/Sec write. You can see my test result on the page linked above, it's almost at the bottom against my user name.

FoxEye · 12 Mar 2010 at 17:15

Thanks bremen, tho google isn't finding any UK suppliers for that one atm.

[edit: nm, found it now...]

bremen1874 · 12 Mar 2010 at 17:45

Try searching for 'Verbatim 47377'

FoxEye · 12 Mar 2010 at 17:48

That looks like a great find, bremen. 30mb/14mb for £15 is a sweet deal

Thanks again.

DigitalReaper · 12 Mar 2010 at 18:11

FoxEye said:
A well-known auction site seller is listing an 8gb drive with read 20mb/s and write 14mb/s... but... no brand, no model number, and from Honk Kong. It sounds like a gamble to me!

Getting flash media from there is a bad idea, many people have ended up with devices reporting more capacity than they actually have. e.g. '8gb' card that cant write past 2gb.

FoxEye · 29 Dec 2010 at 19:24

I need to resurrect this thread

The flash disk I bought back in march was fine and fast and all that jazz, but it doesn't have a friendly name. By that, I mean that it doesn't have a "name string" stored on it.

And because of that, Gigabyte boards crash when trying to boot it. Other devices have a name string like "USB Disk Pro" and these boot just fine. The Medion 8GB disk has no name string, and the Gigabyte boards do some crazy divide-by-zero-then-dereference-a-null-pointer stuff because of that

So I once again need a fast USB disk, but with a name string! And I figured I should just ask the audience again