Hey guys!
I haven't had a flash drive for a very long time and have relied on my phone for data transfer, installing OS's etc. I finally decided to get myself a new drive, but I wanted it to be fast.
I purchased a Sandisk Ultra drive, that touted 15mbps read spead. I checked a review online and realised it would be a much better option to use the USB 3.0 ports I have on my PC. I took the Sandisk back to the store.
I checked OC and bought the 8GB Supersonic Xpress. It was on deal of the week and being a forum member I got free delivery. Total cost was £12ish.. bargain.
Photo's
It has a really nice spring function to hide the USB
Benchmark
I benchmarked the drive using ATTO and CrystalMark. I used both USB 3 and USB 2 ports and also 3 different file systems.
USB 3.0 Fat32
USB 3.0 NTFS
USB 3.0 ExFat
USB 2.0 Fat32
USB 2.0 NTFS
USB 2.0 ExFat
HTC Desire for comparison
Conclusion
It's a very nice drive. From the benchmarks you can see the USB 3 write speed isn't much faster than USB 2, but the read spead is double! Therefore I will just use the USB 2 ports for writing data, but if there's anything I need to take from it in a rush, then I will use the USB 3 port (on the back of my PC).
Recommended!
I haven't had a flash drive for a very long time and have relied on my phone for data transfer, installing OS's etc. I finally decided to get myself a new drive, but I wanted it to be fast.
I purchased a Sandisk Ultra drive, that touted 15mbps read spead. I checked a review online and realised it would be a much better option to use the USB 3.0 ports I have on my PC. I took the Sandisk back to the store.
I checked OC and bought the 8GB Supersonic Xpress. It was on deal of the week and being a forum member I got free delivery. Total cost was £12ish.. bargain.
Photo's
It has a really nice spring function to hide the USB
Benchmark
I benchmarked the drive using ATTO and CrystalMark. I used both USB 3 and USB 2 ports and also 3 different file systems.
USB 3.0 Fat32
USB 3.0 NTFS
USB 3.0 ExFat
USB 2.0 Fat32
USB 2.0 NTFS
USB 2.0 ExFat
HTC Desire for comparison
Conclusion
It's a very nice drive. From the benchmarks you can see the USB 3 write speed isn't much faster than USB 2, but the read spead is double! Therefore I will just use the USB 2 ports for writing data, but if there's anything I need to take from it in a rush, then I will use the USB 3 port (on the back of my PC).
Recommended!
