Well, one of the best price to performance ratio is the Sandisk Cruzer Micro.

But still, 8MB/s is nothing to scream about.

I search all of the Lowyat pricelist and only Viewnet is selling it.

Anyways, looking at the higher end bracket, write speed wise, Voyager GT or Cruzer Contour?

This post has been edited by kaiserreich: Apr 22 2009, 10:59 AM

Cruzer Contour
Just don't remove the U3 software.

This post has been edited by tskhang: Apr 22 2009, 03:47 PM

Patriot Xporter XT u can get it from convergent malaysia.

convergent malaysia.??

Come to think about it, I've lost many thumbdrives, all being left there and not unplugged.

This time, I'm gonna get a lanyard and tie it to my bag.
The Contour doesn't seem to have any holes to tie on, so I'm leaning on the Voyager GT, as there's a place to tie something on and it comes with a lanyard as well.

Anyways, I found a review on Kingmax u-drive 16GB, it's in chinese, but I don't know the accuracy of it. With Kingston DT100 doing 14.1MB/s write?
link
Can this one be trusted? Because, if it's accurate enough, these would be as close to those premium, faster drives at, 'normal' price

This post has been edited by kaiserreich: Apr 23 2009, 04:55 PM

hey any of u guys know where I can get nice designer pendrives like these?

http://www.mimoco.com/shop/happy-tree-frie...ggles-gory.html

Nope, better wait for a forumer to buy one and review it here,

Here is something for your reference.

My Sandisk Cruzer Contour 8GB



Will this be enough to sway you over to the Contour?
Anyway, the Contour does come with a pouch for you to tie the lanyard to.


Disclaimer: USB flash drive performance varies from its size and PC to PC configurations.

This post has been edited by tskhang: Apr 24 2009, 11:41 AM

Wow..The Contour performance is so much better than the OCZ. Should have lean towards the Contour instead at the end

u should put the sisoft sandra benchmark too, if using atto for my fren's turtle speed data traveller also can archieve a high speed performance ler.

Took the jump and went for a Voyager GT.

The Atto Benchmark shows good scores, but sadly it operates at around 12 - 15MB/s write. Getting about 27Read and 13 Write on HD Bench, is this too slow? All these are under FAT32.

Using NTFS, quick formatted at 16KB blocks, I get about 11MB/s - 13MB/s Using Teracopy
A full NTFS format at default allocation size resulted in a fluctuation of 5MB/s - 10MB/s.

A weird observation. I had to format the thing in FAT32 using the one recommended at the Corsair Forum and then quick format it at 16KB to get those speeds. Pretty much a disappointment this thing, but still good enough for my daily needs.

This post has been edited by kaiserreich: Apr 24 2009, 06:44 PM

Corsair forum recomend wat thing to format it?
If using teracopy, my contour previously can go up to 15mb/s write speed on my 4yr old pc.

It's here. http://www.sdcard.org/consumers/formatter/sdfv2000.exe

While transferring 6GB worth of movies today, I had an average of around 14MB/s. Much better than the benchmarks.

This post has been edited by kaiserreich: Apr 26 2009, 01:36 AM

so the Sandisk U3 or Voyager GT whc faster?
how about Voyager Mini since the price for Mini is about the same as GT

based on info gathering on the net for sometime, i think the Sandisk Cruzer Contour is the faster one.

The high speed voyager is the Voyager GT 8GB, which is unfortunately not available in lowyat (AFAIK). The 16GB voyager GT is reported to be of only middling performance.
Bought a 16gb Contour. Havent done any benchmarks per se.

Full format and quick format also using tat corsair sw?

need to edit my pos previously tat contour able write up to 17mb/s


anyone know where to get tis td?


This post has been edited by super macgyver: Apr 26 2009, 01:00 PM

Nope. I full format using the app. And then quick format using the windows built in one, since it was impossible to format to NTFS using the SD formatter.

So wat u mean is tat quick format it at 16KB under ntfs format?

Yeah, that's what I did. Default is at 32KB blocks i think. I went to some chinese forum where they were discussing about Apacer AH321 with Samsung MLCs. Some guy got better speeds by using 16KB blocks, so i gave it a try. Got about 1MB/s improvement from what I can recall.