I searched the forums here.
These seemed to get some good reviews.
(1) sandisk titanium cruzer Capacity: 1 Gig - 15Mbps
(2) Lexar JumpDrive Capacity: 1GB
(3) Memorex Rotodrive 2GB
(4) Sandisk Titanium Cruzer U3 4Gb
(5) PNY 2GB Attache Portable Flash Drive $19.99 Write Speed: USB 2.0
(6) PNY PNY Attache 4GB USB $38.99 Write Speed: USB 2.0
u3 removal tool
http://www.sandisk.com/Retail/Default.aspx?CatID=1415
Q: Is there any difference between "USB 2.0" speed and 15Mbps in real life ?
Q: is #5 fairly fast ?
If there was an Amazon like rating thing here, I'd a probably clicked on them all ... probably some good google ad money there.
Just some ideas ... cool site BTW 
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USB 2.0 is just a version of usb, like bluetooth 2.0, but 15mbps is super-slow.
As for #5, I would think it's fairly fast.
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generally, usb 2.0 is faster than usb 1 but if you have 5 different usb2.0 drives, the real speed may differ a lot.
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Is there any reliable information on what are the faster USB drives ?
I've tried to do my homework on the performance of USB Flash drives ... reason being that I started out with a 512Mb JumpDrive (performed really well), A no-name 2Gb drive (which was a little bit slower), and an A-Data 8Gb drive (which was SUPER slow). A portable 2.5" harddisk (USB2 or Firewire) performs very well, just too bulky, and some USB ports do not provide enough juice to even get the drive started without an external powersupply (of power feed from a second USB port).
So an overview would be great ... maybe based on some "standard" benchmarks?!
Can anyone recommend a particular USB drive (8Gb or more) that performs well?
I'm not looking for the cheapest solution, just the fastest
is to not worry about speed. wait until USB 3.0 comes out, i believe it is supposed to come out sometime this year, apparently it is supposed to be a transferr speed of a blasingly fast 4.0 Gbps!
Zoop
and I've never seen any USB flash that came up to even a half of that speed, so USB 3 will just leave even more spare bandwidth on the bus.
i recently picked up a sony microvault 8gb flash drive (the ones that retract) for only $70 at staples. for the price i did not expect stellar performance... but HD Tune 2.54 clocks it in at an average transfer rate of 24.8 MB/sec and a .7ms response time. so it is amazingly fast, and should quench your need for speed
The sandisk cruzer titanium 1 GB writes at 15 Megabytes/s
not 15Mibit/s (1 Byte = 8 bits). 15MB/s is a decent speed for a flash-drive IMO.
Claiming a write-speed of "USB2.0"(480 Mbit/s) on a UFD is nonsense.
Regarding USB-HDD's : Keep in mind that no mechanical ATA drives are capable of measured sustained transfer rates of above 80 MB/s.
But all this is going to change very soon : The first Solid State Disks priced
so "normal humans" can afford them are already available.
You can read a test of several SSD's here :
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/12/17/solid_state_drives/
And the Mtron test is here : (See what happens if you put 2 in a RAID
)
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/11/21/mtron_ssd_32_gb/
More general info here :
http://www.storagesearch.com/ssd-buyers-guide.html
I've got a Corsair Flash Voyager GT and this drive ROCKS!! It's the 4GB model and I get an average read speed of 30MB/s and an average write of ~23MB/s.
For you non-computer geeks out there, that's the equivalent of running T-bird, FF, and Pidgin Portably without almost any noticeable speed deterioration over a local version. Granted, there will always be some, but with this drive, it's virtually not noticeable.
BTW - Their Support ROCKS too.
Corsair is simply fantastic. And when I lost my cap, I sent them an e-mail, got a reply within less than a day and sent me a new cap with no problems.