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Patriot SuperSonic USB 3.0 Flash Drive Review - PAGE 1
Chris Ledenican - Wednesday, March 2nd, 2011 Like ShareUSB flash drives have become the de facto means to transfer large amounts of data from a PC to a personal storage media, but the majority of drives currently available use the dated USB 2.0 standard. This caps the performance of the drive to USB 2.0 specifications, which is quite limiting now that USB 3.0 is becoming a more readily available alternative.
Now that USB 3.0 isn option for more consumers, all the major flash memory manufacturers have been releasing drives based on USB 3.0. All the new drives benefit from being up to 10x faster than USB 2.0, but a few manufacturers such as Patriot are striving to push the performance to even greater heights.
To achieve a higher performance rating, Patriot has designed their latest USB 3.0 flash drive, the Supersonic, to be an all-in-one solution that integrates a native single-chip USB 3.0 controller and uses a quad-channel memory architecture. This gives the drive additional performance and allows it to transfer data at an even faster rate than a standard USB 3.0 flash drive.
| Specifications | |
| USB 3.0 compliantPEEDSPEED | |
| Quad-Channel technology for fast read/write performance | |
| Up to 100MB/s read | |
| Up to 70MB/s write | |
| Backwards compatible with USB 2.0 | |
| Aluminum housing for shock resistance up to 15G | |
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They are pretty expensive too. $200 for a 64gb flash drive is a bit high, especially when you can get an SSD the same size for almost half the cost.
PQi makes a 32gb for only 35$. I'd go that route if I so needed the portability.
However, would love to see this technology implemented into a 1TB portable drive in the near future, would certainly consider it.