- Read Speed up to 200MB/s
- Write Speed up to 120MB/s
- USB 3.0
- 64GB
FAST! But not for writing many 2-3MB JPEG files.
01/23/2012
This review is from: Patriot Supersonic Magnum 64GB USB 3.0 Flash Drive Model PEF64GSMNUSB
Pros:
The speed of this flash drive is very fast for large files. As a test, I copied a 2GB HD video clip to the drive (write performance) and was getting around 120MB/sec throughout the transfer from my SSD - total transfer time was ~19 seconds! My platter 1.5TB HD could only manage around 60 MB/sec sustained to this drive.. this USB stick is FASTER than my 1.5TB hard drive for large file transfers. Also, this patriot magnum is faster than my Adata aluminum usb 3.0 32gb stick.
Reading the 2-3MB JPEG photos from the drive is a completely different story than write speed, luckily. I was able to get around 135-145MB/sec reading from the flash drive writing to the SSD. That is totally awesome and beyond my hopes for read speed.
Are you ready for this? Transferring the 2GB HD video clip to the SSD I was about to get 215-230MB/sec. Whaaaat?! Awesome!
Cons:
Lost a Star: I actually use this drive in the "real world" to transfer JPEG photos averaging 2-3MB in size. Here the flash drive falls short and loses a star. I could only attain a max of about 33MB/sec sustained transfer WRITE speed. I tried both NTFS and exFAT and many different allocation sizes. I tried from both my SSD and my external SATA RAID 5 array. Even my 1.5TB hard drive managed 40-45MB/sec write speed with the same files.
Overall Review:
I own a half dozen of the old USB 2.0 Patriot 64GB Magnum USB flash drives and they are pretty dang good and have only had one performance failure requiring an RMA over about two years and consistent use. This new usb 3.0 version is the same form factor, which is to say its big. I wouldn't want to put this in my pocket full time due to it's size. It is an an aluminum enclosure, but the end cap is only held in by some plastic tabs and one of my usb 2.0 sticks the end has broken off exposing the circuit board and chips inside... you can actually slide the whole memory module board out completely of the aluminum case if this happens.
No, there is no activity LED - True, the USB 2 version had it, but not this one, which is odd.
No, there is no Lanyard included - I added my own
Yes, the Cap falls off easily - will be lost in no time... I lost the caps in no time from all my other Magnum drives and it doesn't make a difference one bit.
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