Super Talent Pico-E 8GB Review

Testing:

To test the performance of the Super Talent Pico-E 8GB, I will use a program that is called "Flash Memory Toolkit." The free demo of this program will be what I use to do the testing. This will consist of a low level read test, which will check memory bandwidth on the device, and then I will test several test files for the writing portion. While the testing is taking place, I will have the Pico-E plugged directly into one of my on-board USB ports.

Testing System:

• Processor: Intel Q9450 Core 2 Quad 333x8
• Motherboard: Gigabyte X48-DQ6
• Memory: Mushkin XP2 Redline 8000 2 x 2GB 5-5-5-12
• Video Card(s): MSI 9800GT
• Power Supply: Mushkin 800 watt Modular power supply
• Hard Drive: 1 x Seagate 750GB SATA
• OS: Windows Vista Ultimate

Comparison Drives:

• Sandisk Cruzer Micro 1 GB
• OCZ Rally 2 Dual Channel 2GB
• ADATA C702 Classic 16GB Flash Drive
• Corsair Flash Voyager 32GB

Read Speed - Low Level Benchmark:

The first test I will be preforming on the Pico-E is the low level read test. This test will give us a speed in megabytes per second and a "times" factor. The result of this test shows that the average read rate is 23.9MB/s and the average "X" factor is 162X.