Performance

We used the following devices for our comparison:

• OCZ Rally 1GB
• OCZ Mini Kart 1GB
• Super Talent RBST 1GB
• Corsair Flash Voyager 1GB
• Sandisk Cruzer Titanium 512MB
• Sandisk Cruzer Micro 2GB
• A-Data Football Disk 512 MB
• A-Data My Flash PD7 1GB
• Generic Stick USB 1.1 256MB
• Verbatim Store 'n' Go PRO 2GB

We used HDTach in the following two benchmarks.

HD Tach results are not the fastest, but this Verbatim Store 'n' Go 4GB is supposed to offer a lot of space, not speed. Thus the result is certainly adequate.


Many high-speed USB drives offer nice transfer rates, yet have slow access times. Access time is quite the important feature. The Verbatim Store 'n' Go scores 5.8ms, which one again underlines the fact that this memory stick is for the value minded, looking for a lot of space and not speed.

To get a feeling how the speed with different sized files is, we used the ATTO disk benchmark.

The benchmark reflects the HDTach scores with a read bandwith of just over 11.5MB/s. The write spead is always slower on most USB memory devices. The 3.6MB/s of the Verbatim Store 'n' Go is quite low, but ok for a value memory device.