So I have several USB drives lying around and I realized that I am not really sure which one performs the best. So I decided to benchmark them.
Patriot "Razzo" 8 GB:
OCZ Rally 2 4GB:
SD Cruzer 16 GB:
And for the heck of it, here is a 500 GB Western Digital USB hard drive (not solid state):
Some observations:
It would seem that 32.77 MB/s read speed result may be limited by the USB2 bus speed, and not by the memory stick itself. I base this off of the fact that two USB sticks are getting similar read results which I do not think is a coincidence.
Also, the 16 GB version is quite a bit slower. I've noticed that solid state memory in greater capacities (such as on SD cards) tends to perform slower so this backs up my findings.
Guess I will be using that Patriot stick for the time being!
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