ozak,

The read performance is good but the write speed is so-so only. I do know the Flash Voyager 16GB is using MLC chips.

I kinda like my Voyager 4 GB. It's built tough. Maybe
the thick rubber insulates it but it doesn't heat up like
my Kingston 512 MB.

Looks like it could survive the washing machine too!

- yap

SanDisk Cruzer Titanium 4gb.


in general, does bigger capacity flash drives are slower? i ask coz the performance is slower than my the previous Cruzer Micro 2gb that i've tested.

I don't think so bro, the bigger ur thumbdrive is, the slower it is. I bought the Corsair Voyager 8GB last week, it's damn slow in term of copying, moving files especially small files. I'm using Vista, the average writing speed is 4-6MB/s. But the reading speed is very fast. So unless u need a big capacity and don't care about waiting, it's a good buy

16gb i cant even find in lyp ler. 

anybody tried copying a file as big as 4GB to ur 16 GB thumbdrive. got problem ar eg. say disk full.

edit: haha silly me. juz knew that in FAT file system cannot transfer a single file larger than 3.74 GB into the thumbdrive. have to format it into NTFS 1st.

whoa lidet mah not worth liao my corsair GT 16GB. bought for RM 138

hmm somehow corsair's thumbdrive need to be formatted inside dos prompt in FAT32 to get its highest write speed in 16 MB/s

Yeah i agree....8GB above the speed is too slow, especially if you wanna use it to play video file using a DivX capable DVD/USB standalone player (like philips)
If wanna get a 8GB drive, get those cybpsych recommended. Currently, those Sandisk Extreme Contour are going for slightly above RM100.  I remembered paying the same amount of money for a Micro Cruzer last year.
Even the Sandisk ducati 4GB price is down by half now.

How much is the DataTraveler 256gb? If its more than 130USD you can consider SSD instead.
Nowadays expensive thumbdrive started to lose its shine after SSD price per dropped like waterfall.

Twice expensive than EVO 250GB SSD(if the USD to MYR conversion is correct), i'd sacrifice a bit and get the EVO along with a SATA to USB cable, instead of thumbdrive anyday.
But it's up to your pocket size.

if i were u, i would go for ur 2th option