Mushkin Mulholland 16GB & 32GB Flash Drive Review

Testing:

To test the performance of the Mushkin Mulholland 16 & 32GB flash drives, I will use a program that is called Flash Memory Toolkit. The free demo of this program will be used to perform the testing. This consists of a low level read test, which will check memory bandwidth on the device, and then a write test of different file sizes. The next benchmark will be the removable storage SiSoft Sandra benchmark. Finally, I will test once again the write speed by copying on it our custom files - the same ones we use for the WinRAR benchmark. All thumb drives have been formatted beforehand and they are plugged into a rear USB port on the motherboard.

Testing System:

• CPU: Intel Core i7 920 150x20 = 3 GHz
• Cooling: Noctua NH-U12P SE 1366
• Motherboard: MSI X58 Eclipse SLI
• Memory: Mushkin 996805 Redline PC312800 6-8-6-24 1600MHz
• Video Card(s): Sapphire Radeon HD 5870 Toxic 2GB
• Power Supply: Mushkin 800 watt Modular power supply
• Hard Drive: 1 x Seagate 1TB SATA
• Optical Drive: LG DVD-RW
• OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
• Case: NZXT Beta Evo
  

 

Comparison Drives:

• Mushkin Mulholland 32GB
• Mushkin Mulholland 16GB
• Imation Swivel Pro Flash Drive 1GB
• Super Talent DH 2GB

 

Read Speed - Low Level Benchmark:

This is the first benchmark from Flash Memory Toolkit. This test outputs a speed in megabytes per second and a "times" factor. For both scores, higher is better.

 

 

 

 

 

 The Mushkin Mulholland 16 & 32GB drives were only beaten out by the Super Talent DH 2GB drive, and they all were able to put the Imation Swivel Pro to shame.