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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.

Conclusive Thoughts

The speedy USB 3.0 flash drive from ADATA is offered in 3 flavours: 8GB, 16GB (the model which has been tested) and 32GB. The 8GB model comes with the slowest read/write speeds, but the 16GB, 32GB models share the same read speeds, the latter having the highest write transfer speeds (31MB/s, as advertised by the manufacturer).

The read speeds I have obtained in the tests are very close to the manufacturers' rating; when looking at the write speeds, I was impressed because ADATA has rated this model at 18MB/s and I have obtained in the Total Commander tests 20.23MB/s (when transferring a 420MB file from the HDD to the flash drive).

The downloadable software bundle ADATA offers is identical to the other Superior C905 drive reviewed in the past, which can be useful in many instances.

ADATA Superior Series S102 16GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Recommended For:

I would like to thank again to ADATA for offering me a sample of their latest product for review!

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

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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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