The testbench was composed from the following hardware:
CPU: Intel I7 Retail @ stock
Motherboard: Foxconn BloodRage with G42 BIOS
RAM: 3x2GB Patriot PVT36G1600LLK 1600MHz
Video: Sparkle GTX 470 with stock and OMNI A.L.C.
Power Supply: Nexus RX-8500 850W modular
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200.11
Case: Thermaltake Armor+ LCS, stock cooling
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64
The drive comes completely empty, formatted FAT32:
To determine the flash drive read speeds, the HD Tune 4.60 utility was used:
HD Tune File Benchmark 64MB
HD Tune File Benchmark 512MB
Summary Graph (Read Performance)
To measure the real life performance, I have used the Total Commander application to copy to the flash drive and from the flash drive the same file and recorded the transfer speeds, when they have stabilized.
File Copy
File Read
Summary Graph(Real-life performance)
One of the optional applications you can download is OStoGo, which helps us transfer the Windows 7 kit from the original DVD to the flash drive and install it from there:
UFDtoGo is another application that can be downloaded and has the following features:
The application can be started only if the USB Flash Drive is inserted; after the application is initialized, we can see its interface, with the menu on the left side:
One interesting feature that I have found when checking out this software is that you can use your Flash Drive to lock the computer you are working with, while you are away:
Another interesting feature is that we can password protect the data present on the flash drive, with AES 128 encryption:
If the device has been lost, we can enter out personal information so the person that finds it would know where to look:
you can see it in device manager under usb root habs.
it's very critical for me.