Silicon Power Jewel J20 64GB USB 3.1 Flash Drive Review

Storage/Other by stefan @ 2016-09-05

While the Jewel J20 does not break any speed records in terms of data transfer, thanks to Micro COB technology we can see a really tiny finalized product which aims on being in-line with the current fashion trends. The design is vibration-proof, waterproof but also dust-proof and Silicon Power is also throwing in a lanyard, easy to install.

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Test Setup and Test Results

The testbench was composed from the following hardware:

 

CPU: Intel I5 4690K Retail @ stock

Motherboard: BIOSTAR GAMING Z97X

RAM: GeIL Black Dragon 4x4GB DDR2133 (@1600)

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

Power Supply: Nexus RX-8500 850W modular

HDD: OCZ Vertex 4 240GB SSD

Case: Thermaltake Armor+ LCS, stock cooling

OS: Windows 7 Ultimate SP1 x64


The Silicon Power Jewel J20 USB 3.1 Flash Drive has arrived formatted FAT32:

 

 

To determine the flash drive read speeds, the HD Tune v5 utility was used; the read speeds are quite good with this particular model, while the writes are decent (when transferring data from mobile devices) as well for the 16GB variant:

 

 

HD Tune File Benchmark

 

 


Summary Graph (Read Performance)

 

To measure the real life performance, we 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, after they have stabilized.

 

File Copy


File Read


Summary Graph (Real-life performance)

 

 

We have also performed some extra tests with this drive and the results can be checked out right here:

ATTO

 

Anvil

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