Large Silicon Power flash drive and USB SSD test

For the measurement, we used the latest version of the well-proven Disk Bench application, 2.5.3.2.

Our test configuration included the following elements:

• Motherboard:
  • GIGABYTE GA-X58-UD4P (BIOS: F8)
• Processor:
  • Intel Core i7 920 2,66 GHz @ 3,8 GHz (200 × 19)
• Processor cooler:
  • Scythe Ninja 2 Rev B
• Memory:
  • GeiL EVO ONE DDR3 1800 MHz @ 1600 MHz 8-8-8-28 3 × 1 GB 1.65 V
• Hard disks:
  • HITACHI 160 GB SATA2 (HDS721616PLA380)
  • HITACHI 160 GB SATA2 (HDS721616PLA380)
  • Samsung 200 GB SATA2 (SP2004C)
• Video card:
  • ATI Radeon HD 5870 1024 MB (GIGABYTE GV-R587D5-1GD-B)
• Power supply: Xigmatek NRP-HC1501 1500 W
• Software environment:
  • Windows 7 RTM 64 bit HUN
  • Intel INF 9.1.1.1019
  • ATI Catalyst 8.66 RC7

Test process: Only one repository was connected to the test configuration at a time, using which Disk Bench copied a 4 GB ISO file from the system partition to the flash drive as a write task. At the end of the event, we recorded the result and then copied the file to the repository back to the same partition to get the read value.

Looking at the written values ​​and the graph, we can witness a huge standard deviation. This is not surprising, since the majority of the field is not sharpened for high speed, the differences between them are minor, the LuxMini 920 and the SSDs, on the other hand, are in a different category, with the former beating the older SSD with an eSATA connection and its production did not bring the expected results either, and moreover, the newer SSD beats it when used on USB, not by a little. The TOUCH 610, LuxMini 910 and UNIQUE 520 move around 3 MB/s, which we certainly can't take credit for, because if they can do that much with a "continuous" large file, then the situation can't be rosy when moving many small files either.

As you read, the field shakes up a bit, and several cheaper models come to life that only suffered in writing. The 8xx TOUCHs are doing well and the ULTIMA 155 and LuxMini 920 are also beating the SSDs, even though we were able to try the older one in eSata mode as well, though only tithes decide in favor. Another - almost incomprehensible - interesting thing is that the newer SSD performs slower when reading than when writing. The same three models practically pinch 8 MB / s, which we are not really happy with, even if we can talk about cheap products.

Gross end-user prices:

• Pendrives:

  • TOUCH 810 4GB: HUF 4160
  • TOUCH 810 8GB: HUF 6835
  • TOUCH 850 8GB: HUF 7110
  • TOUCH 610 4GB: HUF 3290
  • TOUCH 820 4GB: HUF 3550
  • UNIQUE 520 4GB: HUF 4055
  • ULTIMA 155 4GB: HUF 4070
  • LuxMini 910 4GB: HUF 3410
  • LuxMini 920 8GB: HUF 8235
• SSDs:

  • Silicon Power eSATA / USB SSD 16 GB: 13 990 Ft
  • Silicon Power eSATA / USB SSDII 64 GB: 43 090 Ft

Closing remarks:

Seeing the above amounts, probably no one got to his heart, very friendly numbers emerge. Of course, as always, there are more advantageous purchases in the field now, of course it also depends on who needs what. Anyone who gives it a trendy look should focus primarily on the TOUCH series, but if you want elegance, the LuxMini 910 is a given. k speed in USB mode. With the ULTIMA 8's built-in card reader, you can do useful service. At two SSD speeds with our motherboard, maybe a little below what we expected, we wouldn’t be surprised if they improved significantly with a newer P920 board, but it ran with the X155-UD55P and in the absence of power eSata, the newer version’s SATA pace we could not experience. All in all, the gross end-user price of the 58GB version of the first model is HUF 4, which is very friendly in exchange for the large storage space and speed.

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