Wow, some significant performance differences. Nice review. One suggestion though: tell us which of these drives will be useable as Vista ReadyBoost devices.

My only question is: Why did you guys select these and only these USB drives to review? There are far cheaper/better ones out there in my opinion.

any information on what controller chips and NAND flash memory chips are being used for the various models?

The graphs do not agree with the text, please review the article.

I was disappointed that some of the more recent candidates aren't in there, including OCZ Rally2 (replaces original Rally), ATP ToughDrive (30/20MB), Memina Rocket (30/20MB), Patriot Xporter XT (32MB), and last but not the least, Buffalo FireStix RUF2 Type-R (32/27MB). If SanDisk Extreme IV CompactFlash[1]'s speed is of any indication, there may be a USB varient waiting in near future. Too bad nobody in North America sold the Buffalo flash....

[1] http://www.sandisk.com/Products/Catalog(1191)-SanDisk_Extr eme_IV_CompactFlash.aspx

I think it would have been useful to identify more clearly what type boot-disk formatting was allowed by the drives. For example, I have been clobbered by the Apacer HT203 (previous model) only allowing itself to be formatted as a bootable ZIP format drive. This format has quite limited support as a bootable option by most BIOS's. Therefor I could not boot my thinkpad of of it. The ability to be able to boot off a flash drive is an important criteria to any evaluation.

the last two graph on page 13 are the same. They must be read and write graph but the both are read with the same values

Hi ,
I am interested in the PowerChartManager Software delivered with the Sony Micro Vault flash drive. I have developed the software and I search contacts to user in the US who knows the software and how are located in the US.
Please everybody contact me at Barth@mcu-online.org.
THX for contacting me asap.
Thomas

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WHERE CAN i GET A SONY FLASH DRIVE THAT DEIFNATELY RUN THE AUTO LOGIN SOFTWARE.i CAN'T FIND A MICRO VAULT MODEL USM-EX TURBO ANYWHERE