Performance

We used the following devices for our comparison:

• A-Data Football Disk 512 MB
• A-Data MyFlash PD7 1 GB
• A-Data PD17 Flash Drive 1 GB
• A-Data PD18 Flash Drive 2 GB
• A-Data Pirates Flash Drive 2 GB
• A-Data RB19 Flash Drive 1 GB
• ATP ToughDrive_Mini 2 GB
• ATP ToughDrive 2 GB
• Corsair Flash Voyager 512 MB
• Generic Stick USB 1.1 256 MB
• OCZ Mini Kart 1 GB
• OCZ Rally 1 GB
• OCZ Roadster 1 GB
• PQI Intelligent Drive i810 1 GB
• PQI Travelling Disk i221 1 GB
• Sandisk Cruzer Micro 2 GB
• Sandisk Cruzer Titanium 512 MB
• Super DH Series 200x 1 GB
• Super Talent RBST 1 GB
• Thermaltake MUSE external HDD enclosure
• Verbatim Store'n'Go Pro 2 GB

For the record, we tested the drive before we tried to break it.




Very impressive, the ToughDrive Mini can claim the number one read bandwidth spot of our test group.


Access time is an important feature for Windows Vista ReadyBoost. The Toughdrive shines here too with an access time of 0.4 ms which is the lowest recorded in our testing.


Like with all drives, performance gets better, the bigger the data chunks are. Also common to all USB sticks is that writes are slower than reads. Optimum file size is 64KB or bigger for maximum performance. In daily use you will almost never see files smaller than 64KB.