Adata and Kingston USB 3 Flash Drives

Written by Richard Swinburne

November 8, 2010 | 07:28

Tags: #drive #fast #flash #key #performance #portable-storage #recommended #result #review #stick #tested #usb-3

Companies: #adata #kingston

Test Setup:

  • Core i7-940 at 2.93GHz (133MHz x 22) TurboBoost and power saving states disabled
  • Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 Motherboard (F6 BIOS) with NEC USB 3 chipset
  • 6GB DDR3 1,600MHz memory
  • MSI N460GTX Cyclone Graphics Card
  • Windows 7 Home Premium x64
  • Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 1TB hard drive
We used the same USB 3 port on the rear I/O for both flash drives. Both flash drives came FAT32 pre-formatted, but we found slight performance differences between this and NTFS so tested both to check.

AS SSD

Uncompressable Data, Sequential Read Speed

  • ADATA N005 16GB (FAT 32)
  • ADATA N005 16GB (NTFS)
  • Kingston DT Ultimate 16GB (FAT 32)
  • Kingston DT Ultimate 16GB (NTFS)
    • 84
    • 26
    • 81
    • 26
    • 88
    • 54
    • 88
    • 49
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
MB/sec, Higher Is Better
  • Read MB/s
  • Write MB/s

ATTO

4KB Compressable Sequential Read Speed

  • ADATA N005 16GB (FAT 32)
  • ADATA N005 16GB (NTFS)
  • Kingston DT Ultimate 16GB (FAT 32)
  • Kingston DT Ultimate 16GB (NTFS)
    • 33
    • 27
    • 32
    • 27
    • 19
    • 23
    • 19
    • 22
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
MB/sec, Higher Is Better
  • Read MB/s
  • Write MB/s

For performance analysis please go to page 4.
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