Performance

We compared the OCZ Mini Kart to the following USB devices:

• OCZ Rally 1GB
• Corsair Flash Voyager 1GB
• Sandisk Cruzer Titanium 512 MB
• Thermaltake MUSE external HDD enclosure
• Generic Stick USB 1.1 256 MB

We used HDTach in the following two benchmarks.


Performance king here is of course the OCZ Rally. The Thermaltake MUSE is an external 3.5" HDD case which uses a real hard drive and was included just for comparison.
Even though the Mini Kart is slower its performance is well acceptable. Even though the differences look big, you have to think about how much you are actually using your USB stick and if waiting a few seconds longer makes a difference for you.


The access time of the OCZ Mini Kart seems to be really slow. I verified this result a couple of times. OCZ emphasizes that this USB stick was not optimized for performance but for size and ultra-portability.

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


As you can see the write performance of the drive is less than the reading speed, but still very good. As the benchmarks show, the stick will work best when using files of 64KB or bigger.