Fastest thumbdrive?

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EnderW

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Using my 2.5" external drive has made me realize how slow my thumbdrive is. What's the fastest thumbdrive available? Is anything going to come close to external hard drive speeds?
 
EnderW said:
Using my 2.5" external drive has made me realize how slow my thumbdrive is. What's the fastest thumbdrive available? Is anything going to come close to external hard drive speeds?
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Look for one that is Vista Readyboost capable. Also, I am starting to see DUAL CHANNEL thumb drives. Works for MOBOs.

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$62 bux, for 4 gig. But hey, fast is rarely cheap.

Don
 
If I remember correctly I think Patriot has a line of performance thumb drives.
 
The red Corsair Voyager GT series (bigger is faster) are still the fastest thumb drives you can buy.

Many benches to prove this. I've seen it first hand.
 
Another vote for the VoyagerGT, my 4gb one boots batpe up way faster than my 4gb Cruzer's
 
Yeah, like it said, its probably not the fastest. But if he has been using a really slow one, then he probably doesnt realize how much of a range there is. I have a 1gb freebie that is retardedly slow, even copying a 2mb file is agonizingly slow, so if thats what he is used to anything not sucky will be quite an improvement.
 
I have the corsair flash voyage gt 2gb and 4gb models, and I have to say the Crucial/Patriot Xporter is a faster memory card. (I think its the fastest on the market)
I think dual channel usb technology is a complete waste. It doesnt show any real performance increase.

K-TRON
 
arcsum68 said:
The cruzer drives are very fast, and readyboost capable, and not that exensive.

http://www.buy.com/prod/sandisk-8gb...e-sandisk-8gb-cruzer/q/loc/101/205147212.html

$24 for 8GB, note that its not the Titanium version.

Im gonna say this probably is NOT the fastest thumb drive out there, but if you have been using a crappy slow one like I was, then you will be very surprised at how fast this one is.
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Yep, the Cruzer is pretty good. I've got a whole pile of free 1gb thumb drives and their speed is much, much lower than my 4gb cruzer.
 
I use the Corsair GT versions. They are very speedy.
 
I don't know why corsair has stopped/limited the production of their gt line, I'm guessing the cap design? They were water resistant 10m and very durable( I use my 2gb gt as a rubber ball in ap chem class). However, I'm only seeing the new voyagers in large capacities and in a blue color and am insure of their performance therein. My next mem card is probably gonna be a patriot xporter.
 
May I ask what you are using your thumbdrives for that requires "performance"? Are you running apps from them or something?

For me, they're the new sneakernet, just something to transport things between comps, beats the hell out of zip disks. :D

I have an 8G Corsair Voyager and a 1G Kingston DataTraveler. Guess I've never had to move anything big enough to notice a speed issue.
 
Lethal said:
May I ask what you are using your thumbdrives for that requires "performance"? Are you running apps from them or something?

For me, they're the new sneakernet, just something to transport things between comps, beats the hell out of zip disks. :D

I have an 8G Corsair Voyager and a 1G Kingston DataTraveler. Guess I've never had to move anything big enough to notice a speed issue.
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just moving stuff from my laptop to desktop, but I hate waiting
 
My Corsair 1GB Turboflash which is maybe 2 years old now (i purchased it when vista first came out) gives the following results in windows, whilst copying to and from a 500GB samsung.

Windows Performance Monitor
Average read speed = 33.5MB/s
Average write speed = 14.8MB/s

HD Tach
Average read speed = 31.7MB/s
Burst speed = 32.7MB/s
 
Liver said:
if i could figure out how to do that between XP pro desktop and OSX 10.5 laptop, I would be gold.
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Your kidding right? How to do that? Pretty obvious, no?

Connect both machines to a gigabit capable switch. All done. Obviously the PC will have to have a gigabit NIC, Macs have all had them since, forever.
 
criccio said:
Your kidding right? How to do that? Pretty obvious, no?

Connect both machines to a gigabit capable switch. All done. Obviously the PC will have to have a gigabit NIC, Macs have all had them since, forever.
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Wireless and shared folders between them, a true network. Hooking up a cable is just as clumsy as using a thumb drive to bridge them (what I am also doing).
 
Liver said:
Wireless and shared folders between them, a true network. Hooking up a cable is just as clumsy as using a thumb drive to bridge them (what I am also doing).
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Brahmzy mentioned his Gigabit home network, and you said it would be great if you could do that between your Mac and PC. I told you that you can.

You never mentioned anything about Wireless. There is no Gigabit wireless. 802.11n would give you the fastest speeds if you went that route.

And what is this about a true network? Mac's and PC's can share files perfectly fine, and very easily if i might add. I have 2 Leopard laptops in my house that I share files back and forth with my Windows Home Server perfectly fine.
 
criccio said:
Brahmzy mentioned his Gigabit home network, and you said it would be great if you could do that between your Mac and PC. I told you that you can.

You never mentioned anything about Wireless. There is no Gigabit wireless. 802.11n would give you the fastest speeds if you went that route.

And what is this about a true network? Mac's and PC's can share files perfectly fine, and very easily if i might add. I have 2 Leopard laptops in my house that I share files back and forth with my Windows Home Server perfectly fine.
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you have a link to a noob guide for setting that up?
thanks
 
Honestly, it should just work out of the box with most Mac's, at least it has for me. I cant remember really doing any configuration, but here are some links anyway:
http://forums.mactalk.com.au/20/42765-how-share-files-between-mac-os-x-leopard-vista.html
http://www.macworld.com/article/132002/2008/02/mobilemac2503.html
Here is what I searched for:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=shares+files+mac+pc+leopard&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:eek:fficial&client=firefox-a

Why my Google search took me to Google.co.uk is beyond me.. lol

BTW, its not something new that Mac's and PC's can talk to eachother. The both use SMB, and so does Linux.
 
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