CPU: AMD Phenom II 720 Black Edition @ 3.4GHz
Motherboard: Asus M3N78 HDMI/Heatpipe
RAM: 8GB OCZ Platinum PC8000 DDR2
SYSTEM HDD: 300GB Samsung F1 7200RPM SATA HDD
ADDITIONAL HDD: 750GB WD 7200RPM SATA HDD
Optical drive: Samsung DVDRW SATA
CPU cooler: Custom Watercooling
PSU: Tagan Piperock 1100W

Additional USB pen drives used for comparison:

- Kingston Data Traveller 8GB
- Play.com generic OEM pen drive 16GB

Testing

I used Sisoft Sandra to bench all three USB memory sticks using its testing suite. It should a give a good indication of the performance of each flash drive.

I also performed my own test which comprised of transferring a 580MB file to and from each USB pen. In order to make the transfer as smooth as possible I transferred the files between the flash drives and the secondary HDD in my test system.

Since this wasn’t the system drive it will hopefully transfer in a constant and uninterrupted manner.

I repeated each flash drive test three times during both read and write testing and took the average.

I also tested the drive on Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista and Windows 7 with no issues at all.

Lets see how it did against the competition...