Hey Guys I want to buy a USB drive. Any recommendations? Size , speed, cost all matter. I would go for the best value but would like to find out about the fastest around.
I can highly recommend Corsair Voyager GT's. I've got a 4GB one, and it's seriously fast, yet practical and sensibly priced.
Hmm interesting... I was about to look for the same thing. In my case I wanted to use Windows Ready Boost. And of course I look something that is faster than my HDD. (Western Digital 250GB 16MB of Buffer, 7200RPM, WD2500KS, SATA-II)
Second the VOyager GT's, Got a 8GB one to store most of my music and Coursework, it's fast enough to stream video off
Got a VoyagerGT 16GB here. Fairly nippy. Faster still, is a USB 2.5" hdd though. I also have a VoyagerGT 4GB plugged in as Readyboost, speedtest below:
Other then access time, my HDD is faster min: 34.2MB/sec max: 62.4MB/sec avg: 52.8 MB/sec Access: 13.6ms Burst rate: 87.9MB/sec
I don't know what's wrong with your PC kenco, but my 4GB GT gives me this: Totally saturates the USB-bus, I get the same with USB hard drives. Shame I can't find out how fast it really is...
Huh, that *is* weird. I guess the USB controller on your DFI is better than the one on my Gigabyte. Only thing I can think is that it is being used as a Readyboost drive.
I'd probably suggest it's because it's a readyboost. Most controllers are decent these days really. Which board is it? If BiT did a review it'll have a USB benchmark test.
It's a Gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 rev1.0, the one with the heatsinks hewn of enough copper to service a combi boiler.
Assuming the OP actually means a pendrive - as opposed to an external hard drive... I agree with the Corsair Voyager GT But I can also heartily recommend a Patriot Extreme Performance Xporter XT Boost/XT Plus (available up to 32GB/200x!!) I have the 4GB Xporter XT Plus (200x) seen above, and it absolutely flies
It's also a bit of a looker. If I was a lowly usb stick, I'd be saying things like 'hawt' and 'rawr!'
Readyboost is about access time, so is the page file. Take a look at the access times for flash memory and then for your hard disk.
Right, I see. Thanks! i thought it was Read/write speed that was important, as it needs to put data on them and well read them.
Yeah, the only flash-based drive that's gonna be faster than your HDD is gonna be an SSD HDD tbh. I always liked the idea of getting a heap of thumbdrives and soldering them all to a USB2 hub and then using some kind of software raid on them. Think I'd saturate the USB bus before I got any decent performance though.
The files are not of any meaningful size, but I can see where you're coming from, as a Readyboost drive has to be able to read/write at a minimum speed.
