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dparm
03-02-2005, 08:38 PM
http://arstechnica.com/reviews/hardware/flash.ars/6


Cliff's Notes:

WRITE PERFORMANCE
Fastest to slowest: Iomega, SimpleTech, Verbatim, Fuji, SanDisk, Transcend, PNY, Mushkin, Lexar

READ PERFORMANCE
Fastest to slowest: Iomega, Transcend, Fuji, SanDisk, SimpleTech, Verbatim, Mushkin, PNY, Lexar


Bear in mind this article was written in June of 04 so newer models may or may not be available. They also decided to play around in OS X and hooked two 250MB drives up as a software RAID-0 array.

I'm just happy to see my SanDisk do a pretty decent job, despite being one of the cheaper flash drives there.
jharriso
03-03-2005, 01:22 AM
I've seen that the PQI intelli stick is pretty good. It's supposed to be one of the faster ones out there, it's cheap and it's tiny.
http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/drives/6ec2/
They're available on newegg for a bit cheaper, but I can't get on there for some reason.
amudram
03-05-2005, 01:24 PM
Have any of you seen the new SD+ cards?? they are really cool .. you can stick them into usb ports (by folding at the middle) as well as cameras. I am not sure which website I saw it at. cannot find it now.
lnp
03-05-2005, 07:16 PM
Wait...you fold them in half?
amudram
03-07-2005, 06:32 PM
yup ... well not exactly in half, but you fold them somewhere in the middle, which exposes this usb thing that you can stick into a port. I think it was from sandisk.
amichel
03-16-2005, 11:04 AM
The Apacer HT203 is the bomb-diggity-wiggity-wack-nick-nack-super-mac flash drive. It's a little bigger than some, though not the largest, but it is the fastest. Review (http://www.trustedreviews.com/article.aspx?page=1186&head=12)

That's raw speed, my friends. And, thanks to Newegg, you can get a 512mb version (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-180-724&depa=0) of this bad boy for about $50 shipped, where a Cruzer Titanium will run you a cool C-note at Best Buy. You can also get it up to...not 1, not 2, but FOUR GIGS, though the 4GB version (http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=20-180-729&depa=0) is a little more cost prohibitive.
dparm
03-16-2005, 11:17 AM
Bahh, Titanium is $60 on NewEgg.