Speediest 32GB USB Flash pen drive

[montag451]

Hi,

I am looking to get the speediest 32GB pen drive on the market.

There doesn't seem to be much price difference between the few that I have looked at, but the ones that do shine are the :

RALLY 2 OCZ 32GB
OCZ ATV 32GB (same as the Rally 2, just with rubber casing etc)
PATRIOT 32GB

Any other ideas, or anyone have any experience with these ones?

Cheers in advance

 

[Lorne]

THey have all pretty much reached the speed limit, Most cost on pen drives now is for capacity and relyability, USB2 with its 32MB=/- is the limiting factor on speed now.

 

[montag451]

Cheers for the reply.

Yeah, I done my research, but was wondering if anyone here had such a stick and what they they thought of it.
Or better still,
if a few people on AT had such sticks and would post their opinions. There are a couple of 64GB sticks out, but not in wide usage, so absolutely no benchmarks on the net that I could find.

Most of the sticks now give a lifetime guarantee, but I would guess that by the time the stick breaks (if you are lucky - 5 years or so), then we'll be wondering how fast the 1 Terabyte stick is versus the 2TB version.

I am sure we all welcome the time when a word document will take up a 1GB or so?

 

[taltamir]

interesting you chose those two.. they happen to be the two fastest 32GB flash drives on the market. The OCZ is faster in almost all file transfer tests (about 20%).
But the patriot annihilates it with more then double the speed in tiny file writing, so if you try copying thousands of tiny files, or use it for readyboost (the patriot can be used with it, the OCZ fails readyboost test), or if you want to run U3 programs from the flash drive, then the patriot is the better choice.

I went with the ATV myself (ordered it yesterday).
oddly enough, gougeegg has it for cheapest.

 

[montag451]

Ah, Taltamir,
Nice one for replying.

Yeah, mostly I'd be doing lots and lots of smallish files. - But no U3 (that is hyper bs from MS).
Well, the Patriot is £10 cheaper anyway, so will probably go with that.

When do you get your stick?
Would you be willing to run a couple of benchmarks?

All the best,