USB Drive Comparisons

since comparison of what? Of some sticks bearing some name, got them cheap in eb?

Serious suppliers or sticks from manufacturers directly will give you the parameters stright away an dI found they mostly are what they say.

But you might have more faked kingstone sticks on the market then one can think, inside can be what ever the backyard assembler just got from other backyard assembler.

And if you got the stick from someone, well you might be lucky if the 32gb are 32gb.
Dont believe what windows tells you, put 32gb data on it and retrieve it , then you are sure you have what you mean you have.

this is difficult.

John explained this earlier and i looked for the post where he did but I cannot. I will attempt to do the best i can to reproduce it.

Essentially the read/write speeds put onto the packaging of most drives are not usually accurate. For instance if a drive has 1gb write/min or something like that it usually means that it is an entire 1gb file that transfers at that speed. However it does not mean 1000 1mb files will transfer in one min. That is because of the different chips that are placed in the drive. There are certain chips for the transfer of small files and certain chips for the transfer of large files. For PortableApps.com we rarely transfer one large file, we usually transfer a lot of smaller files, so the read/write speed given on the box is usually not accurate.

That being said, I have used Sandisk (with U3 removed) and it has always worked well for me and I have nvr had a problem with it. I have also tried the IronKey and that worked very well. I have heard kingston has good drives as well, but I have personally never used one.

hope that helps

Regards
~powerjuce

Yep!

http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskMark/index-e.html