Testbed and Methods

We used the following test programs:

• FC-Test version 1.0
• FC-Test version 2.0
• IOMeter version 2003.02.15

The testbed was configured like follows:

• Albatron PX865PE Pro mainboard
• Intel Pentium 4 2.4GHz CPU
• IBM DTLA-307015 15GB hard disk drive
• Radeon 7000 32MB graphics card
• 256MB DDR SDRAM
• Microsoft Windows XP SP2

Besides the drives tested for this review we include the results of a few drives we had tested earlier. They are marked Blue in tables. You can read about ome of them in our last year's roundup:

• Corsair Flash Voyager CMFUSB2.0
• OCZ Rally2 OCZUSBR2DC
• SanDisk Cruzer Micro SDCZ6-4096