Patriot Memory Stellar Boost XT 64GB USB 3.0 OTG Drive Review
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by stefan
@ 2014-11-11
The new Stellar Boost XT drive from Patriot Memory has quite a small footprint and also features a durable rubberized chassis. The read performance of the drive is very good, nearing 150MB/s in our tests, while the writes are in the 35MB/s area, quite close to the best performing USB 2.0 drives. These speeds are more than enough for maxing out the transfers when connected to our favorite smartphone/tablet which supports OTG for doing backups, watching Full HD content and many other activities.
Product Features, Specifications
Product Features:
Driverless support for most operating system
Compatible with Windows® 8, Windows® 7, Windows Vista®, Windows XP®, Windows 2000®, Windows® ME, Linux 2.4 and later, Mac® OS9, X and later
Rubber ruggedized housing for protection (8 grams)
Product Specifications:
USB 3.0 / Connector for PC/Mac
Micro USB connector for Android 4.0 & up - based smartphones / tablets
Up to 110MB/s Read, 20MB/s Write
Packaging, A Closer Look
Patriot has released its own OTG drive model in order to stay on the line with the current trend; these drives are very useful for expanding the available storage on mobile devices which support OTG; we can also watch a lot of multimedia content which was freshly transferred from our PC to the Stellar Boost XT without the need of worrying about slow wireless transfers or using additional cables. The drive is quite tiny and is offered inside a small cardboard/plastic enclosure; on the front we will discover the total storage capacity, the rated read speed and more:
On the back side, Patriot has drawn some schematics representing the type of usage:
The Stellar Boost XT comes with a rubberized body and offers a good grip when used; each connector is protected by its own cover while on the middle we have a blue texture with the name of the product:
If we flip the product on the other side, we will find a similar design:
One of the drive extremities ends with the regular USB 3.0 connector, while the other has the microUSB connector for OTG-enabled devices:
Test Setup and Test Results
The testbench was composed from the following hardware:
CPU: Intel I5 4670K Retail @ stock
Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-UD5H
RAM: GeIL Black Dragon 2x4GB DDR2133 (@1600)
Video: Gigabyte Radeon 290X WF OC
Power Supply: Nexus RX-8500 850W modular
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200.11 & OCZ Vertex 4 240GB SSD
Case: Thermaltake Armor+ LCS, stock cooling
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64
The Stellar Boost XT 64GB USB 3.0 OTG Flash Drive has arrived formatted FAT32:
To determine the flash drive read speeds, the HD Tune v5 utility was used:
HD Tune File Benchmark
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)
Conclusive Thoughts
The new Stellar Boost XT drive from Patriot Memory has quite a small footprint and also features a durable rubberized chassis; the connectors are carefully protected by separate covers and are tethered to the body of the product so we won’t lose them during travel.
The read performance of the drive is very good, nearing 150MB/s in our tests, while the writes are in the 35MB/s area, quite close to the best performing USB 2.0 drives. These speeds are more than enough for maxing out the transfers when connected to our favorite smartphone/tablet which supports OTG for doing backups, watching Full HD content and many other activities.
For the rendered performance, we think that the 64GB drive is priced fair at about 47 Euros. Of course, we can also choose from the models which sport lower storage capacities: 32GB for about 28 Euros or 16GB for about 21 Euros.
Patriot Memory Stellar Boost XT 64GB USB 3.0 OTG Drive is Recommended For:
We would like to thank again to Patriot Memory for making this review possible!
