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ADATA Superior Series S102 16GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review

Storage/Other by stefan @ 2011-02-09

ADATA started to introduce speedy USB 3.0 flash drives to the market, one of them being the Superior Series S102 16GB model. These products have different read/write speeds depending on the capacity and thanks to their very high read speed performances we can use them successfully for booting Live USB Linux distributions or for transferring the Windows 7/Vista install kits, to speed up the OS installation.

Test Setup and Test Results

The testbench was composed from the following hardware:

CPU: Intel I7 Retail @ stock

Motherboard: Foxconn BloodRage with G42 BIOS

RAM: 3x2GB Patriot PVT36G1600LLK 1600MHz

Video: Sparkle GTX 470 with stock and OMNI A.L.C.

Power Supply: Nexus RX-8500 850W modular

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200.11

Case: Thermaltake Armor+ LCS, stock cooling

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64

The drive comes completely empty, formatted FAT32:

To determine the flash drive read speeds, the HD Tune 4.60 utility was used:

HD Tune File Benchmark 64MB

HD Tune File Benchmark 512MB

Summary Graph (Read Performance)

To measure the real life performance, I have used the Total Commander application to copy to the flash drive and from the flash drive the same file and recorded the transfer speeds, when they have stabilized.

File Copy

File Read

Summary Graph(Real-life performance)

One of the optional applications you can download is OStoGo, which helps us transfer the Windows 7 kit from the original DVD to the flash drive and install it from there:

UFDtoGo is another application that can be downloaded and has the following features:

The application can be started only if the USB Flash Drive is inserted; after the application is initialized, we can see its interface, with the menu on the left side:

One interesting feature that I have found when checking out this software is that you can use your Flash Drive to lock the computer you are working with, while you are away:

Another interesting feature is that we can password protect the data present on the flash drive, with AES 128 encryption:

If the device has been lost, we can enter out personal information so the person that finds it would know where to look:

Comment from mohsen @ 2011/12/05

hi, very useful review about ADATA s102, but do you know how much is it's power usage(mA) ?
you can see it in device manager under usb root habs.
it's very critical for me.

Comment from Stefan Mileschin @ 2011/12/05

Quote:

Originally Posted by mohsen

hi, very useful review about ADATA s102, but do you know how much is it's power usage(mA) ?
you can see it in device manager under usb root habs.
it's very critical for me.

Power Required: 500mA

Comment from mohsen @ 2011/12/05

thanks Stefan, so S102 is out of my choices, maximum usb port current is 500mA and i have to connect my flash to a passive usb hab alongside of my mouse and keyboard, I don't know what these companies are thinking;
I have a HP v165W flash drive with 500mA usage and some times it even doesn't work in solo connection.
currently I'm thinking of Silicon Power Blazee BD10 which has 100mA usage (if rumors be true).

Comment from Stefan Mileschin @ 2011/12/06

Quote:

Originally Posted by mohsen

Glad to be of help!

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