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Silicon Power Marvel M02 128GB USB 3.2 Gen 1 USB Flash Drive Review

Storage/Other by stefan @ 2022-11-14

While the writes of the Marvel M02 are decent, in terms of reads it is snappy since we have recorded average rates up to 90MB/s. Since the product comes with capacities from 16GB up to 128GB, this drive was not thought from the start to hold a lot of data, but mainly some software kits or other type of data we may need to transfer from one computer to the other. For other tasks involving large files we already have other models available which employ SSD-like NAND.

Test Setup and Test Results

The testbench was composed from the following hardware:

CPU: Intel i7-12700K

CPU Cooler: be quiet! Silent Loop 2 360mm AIO

Motherboard: EVGA Z690 CLASSIFIED

RAM: Sabrent Rocket 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 4800MHz

Video: PowerColor Radeon 5700XT 8GB

Power Supply: Cooler Master 850W

SSD: Sabrent Rocket Q4 NVMe PCIe 4.0 M.2 2280 2TB

Case: Cooler Master ATCS 840

Here is the total storage space reported by Windows OS; the drive comes formatted FAT32 by default. For testing purposes we did re-format it to NTFS:

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

For some reason, HD Tune File Benchmark has thrown out an error:

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

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