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Patriot Memory Stellar Boost XT 64GB USB 3.0 OTG Drive Review

Storage/Other by stefan @ 2014-11-11

The new Stellar Boost XT drive from Patriot Memory has quite a small footprint and also features a durable rubberized chassis. The read performance of the drive is very good, nearing 150MB/s in our tests, while the writes are in the 35MB/s area, quite close to the best performing USB 2.0 drives. These speeds are more than enough for maxing out the transfers when connected to our favorite smartphone/tablet which supports OTG for doing backups, watching Full HD content and many other activities.

Test Setup and Test Results

The testbench was composed from the following hardware:

CPU: Intel I5 4670K Retail @ stock

Motherboard: Gigabyte Z97-UD5H

RAM: GeIL Black Dragon 2x4GB DDR2133 (@1600)

Video: Gigabyte Radeon 290X WF OC

Power Supply: Nexus RX-8500 850W modular

HDD: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200.11 & OCZ Vertex 4 240GB SSD

Case: Thermaltake Armor+ LCS, stock cooling

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate x64

The Stellar Boost XT 64GB USB 3.0 OTG Flash Drive has arrived formatted FAT32:

To determine the flash drive read speeds, the HD Tune v5 utility was used:

HD Tune File Benchmark

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)

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