Storage/Other by stefan @ 2011-12-26
The ST4 USB 3.0 Flash Drive product from Super Talent comes with an aluminum body and succeeds to deliver excellent read speeds; on the drive we will also find the Fnet TurboFlash USB application, which is meant to boost the transfer speeds even more.
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 & Patriot TorqX 64GB SSD
Case: Thermaltake Armor+ LCS, stock cooling
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64
ASUS U3S6
The Super Talent USB 3.0 Express ST4 Flash Drive comes formatted FAT32:
The flash drive is bundled with the Fnet TurboFlash USB application, which we have found many times before at other products:
The utility can be installed really easy by one press of a button:
The main function of this utility is to boost a little the transfer rates of the product, by setting it in “Turbo” mode:
To determine the flash drive read speeds, in both Normal and Turbo modes, the HD Tune 4.60 utility was used:
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 Normal
File Read Normal
File Copy Turbo
File Read Turbo
Copyright © 2001-2011 Madshrimps, All rights reserved.
Graphic Design by Dennis Kestelle, Programming by Maarten Menten,
Overall Site design by John Meys
All information and graphics contained in Madshrimps are sole property of the Madshrimps crew and may not be reproduced or copied in any manner without written permission from us.
Follow us on Twitter
Follow us on Facebook