Fastest USB Flash Drive?

[support_bae]

My SanDisk 16GB Cruzer Titanium USB Flash Drive arrived today.
RRP £44.99 but I got mines for £19.99

I decided to test the read speed and to my suprise:

Can this be right because the read speed on this is only suppose to be ~15MB and the seek time.

EDIT: Just copied a 2GB file and write speed were ~13MB/s instead of 9.

 

[theheyes]

I never thought of testing flash drives with HD tune, I might try mine later. I'm looking for a good usb stick as it's my preferred choice for installing Windows these days.

 

[mrk]

My 16GB Kingston Data Traveller for the car gets the same:

(4GB Cruzer below)

 

[asim18]

My OCZ Rally 2 and Sandisk Cruzer Contour

 

[uv]

Aye, it's all about the Rally2 - great stick, amazingly fast for the prrice

 

[mrk]

Hmm HDTune Pro eh.

 

[asim18]

Aye, it's all about the Rally2 - great stick, amazingly fast for the prrice

Yep. I've had mine for over 3 years now. Paid £21 for it and was the fastest ever. Still beats a lot of them.

 

[AbsenceJam]

No point testing like that in HDDTune. Use ATTO or Crystal to check reads and writes for a variety of sizes, that'll show the differences between the drives. They'll all have about the same seq reads.

 

[Tomsk]

OT, but in the picture, is the bottom one a fake?
Stick on 16GB sticker instead of printed/etched on like the top one, makes it looks suspect.

 

[theheyes]

No point testing like that in HDDTune. Use ATTO or Crystal to check reads and writes for a variety of sizes, that'll show the differences between the drives. They'll all have about the same seq reads.

I was thinking this myself (whether HD tune is really the best tool to use)

 

[Sin_Chase]

Datatraveller in the car has high read speeds but falls low on writes compared to my 16GB Rally2 which is my every-day working drive where writes matter.

99% reads are done in the car for MP3s so I couldnt care less about write on it

 

[Deleted member 70857]

Wooo I'm winning!

 

[NightSt@lk3r]

OT, but in the picture, is the bottom one a fake?
Stick on 16GB sticker instead of printed/etched on like the top one, makes it looks suspect.

a lot of manufactures manufacturer identical casing for all sizes and just stick a sticker on, its cheaper than manufacturing different casing for each size.

 

[BarKeep]

Using ATTO on my Optima 8GB and 4GB OCZ Rally2 Turbo:

 

[marmalade]

My SanDisk 16GB Cruzer Titanium USB Flash Drive arrived today.
RRP £44.99 but I got mines for £19.99

I decided to test the read speed and to my suprise:

Can this be right because the read speed on this is only suppose to be ~15MB and the seek time.

EDIT: Just copied a 2GB file and write speed were ~13MB/s instead of 9.

That's about the price for this degree of speed - check out 16GB Bytestor for a better speed and more competitive quote