Performance

We used the following devices for our comparison:

• OCZ Rally 1GB
• OCZ Mini Kart 1GB
• Super Talent RBST 1GB
• Corsair Flash Voyager 1GB
• Sandisk Cruzer Titanium 512 MB
• Sandisk Cruzer Micro 2 GB
• A-Data Football Disk 512 MB
• Thermaltake MUSE external HDD enclosure
• Generic Stick USB 1.1 256 MB

We used HDTach in the following two benchmarks.


I was benchmarking this drive while chatting with someone in ICQ. I think my quote completely describes how this stick performs: "OMG, fastest drive ever!"


Many high-speed USB drives offer nice transfer rates, yet have slow access times. Access time is the more important feature for ReadyBoost than maximum bandwidth. A-DATA's PD7 can also shine in this test, making it the fastest USB drive we ever tested.

To get a feeling how the speed with different sized files is, we used the ATTO disk benchmark.


Like with all drives, performance gets better, the bigger the data chunks are. Also common to all USB sticks is that writes are slower than reads. Optimum file size is 64KB or bigger for maximum performance. In daily use you will almost never see files smaller than 64KB.