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Walton Chaintech APOGEE AstroDrive 16GB USB Flash Drive Review

Storage/Other by stefan @ 2010-06-12

Walton Chaintech, a company which manufactures lots of products like SSDs, Memory Modules, Memory Cards and Graphics Cards, does also produce Flash Drives. The AstroDrive 266X I have received for review is the smallest in the series, maroon colored. The flash drive has very good performances right out of the box, but Walton Chaintech also included a special utility on the drive to boost the performance even more.

Conclusive Thoughts

Conclusive Thoughts

Compared with the flash drives I have tested in the past from various manufacturers, this particular product has very good read/write performances with Turbo Off and excellent performances with the Turbo On feature. There is a drawback through, the impossibility to enable the feature without disabling the check for signed drivers in Windows 7.

I really hope the manufacturer will fix this issue by supplying flash drives with a newer version of the utility; people that bought the flash drive from previous batches should find the updated utility on Walton Chaintechs' website.

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Larger sizes are available too of the AstroDrive!

Regarding the flash drives' appearance, it looks very solid and it has a protective cap against damages to the USB connector. The flash drive also does have a hole to fit in a lanyard, but, unfortunately, it is not included in the package. I would surely recommend to anyone this flash drive with very good read/write performance.

I like to thank Walton Chaintech for making this review possible.

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