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Sony Micro Vault Pro 5GB USB Drive Review (page 3)

Category: Storage

by Andrey Kuznetcov

[ 06/08/2005 | 10:19 PM ]

Performance in FC-Test

I used two patterns with FC-Test. One pattern contained 100 files, 1 megabyte each. The other pattern consisted of a single 100MB file.

The first diagram shows the measured read speeds for the 100x1MB pattern. As you can see, the Seagate ST650211USB is about 1MB/s faster than the Sony drive at reading.

The Sony USD5G couldn’t overtake its opponent at writing a hundred of 1MB files, either. Although the gap is rather small, I can’t but acknowledge that the drive from Sony is slower.

Well, the results of the first pattern have already hinted that the Sony USD5G is unlikely to outperform the “native” Seagate ST650211USB in the other test. Here, the drives process the 1x100MB pattern, and the first diagram shows you the read speeds. The results differ but slightly from the first pattern, and the Seagate ST650211USB is still considerably faster than the Sony.