Flash Drive

[QueBert]

A month ago I read a review somewhere on the web, for the life of me I can't remember where, it was a Flash Drive review of a weird brand, maybe A Data? All I really remember is he commented on how it was the fastest drive he'd tested, and showed some benchmarks up against the Corsair Voyager & OCZ dual channel ones and it blew them out of the water for read/write speeds. I know both I mentioned are pretty fast and all around good. But if I could track down this mysterious one from the review I'd love to pick it up. The more speed the better.

 

[Zillatech]

How about the Patriot Xporter XT

I recently picked up one of these and it seems really fast indeed. Its getting great reviews too.

 

[ChAoTiCpInOy]

Just asking but do you have a purpose of the speed?

 

[QueBert]

I was looking at the Xporter XT and to ChAoTiCpInOy, I do use mine a lot when I'm doing on-site repair work, my last flash drive was fast on big files, but was pretty slow with lots of little files. Between the 2 I've owned I've noticed a decent difference in their speeds. When I'm on-site I like to get things done as quickly as possible, I do a lot of backup/restore of peoples pics/music so 8 gigs isn't uncommon and can be utterly slow with a Kingston Traveler for example (one I owned) 8 gigs copied both ways took forever with it - at least it seemed like that. I should probably just get an external HD and do the backup/restores that way, but I'm cheap and thought a nice 8 gig Flash would do the trick. Write speeds are as important as read speeds, I don't care if it can do 25mb/s reading if it only writes at 7mb/s. Since I do a lot of both, I want to find the best overall. It might be wishful thinking but I'd like to find one that averages 20mb/s both ways.

Think I might get that Patriot it will be tons faster than my Kingston and isn't expensive which is a plus.