USB drives I mean now that I can get 4 gig ones enough to install an OS for
free with press kits about new products or whatever on them they've got to do
something pretty special in order to grab my attention especially if they
come from a company that doesn't normally even make USB drives like
Vision
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this isn't Vision Tech's first portable SSD they actually had a product that let
you plug an MSA SSD into a little enclosure then connect that to your PC
via USB 3 although it's certainly their
much more elegant one so much like the
9696 the 9718 they really got to work on their
product names promises much better performance than a normal high-capacity
USB drive by using an LSI San Force 2281
SSD controller yeah the same kind that a
desktop SSD would use rather than a normal thumb drive controller to
interact with the flash chips on the drive but this time instead of some
cluggy dongle and fragile MCA Drive you're getting a solid aluminum housing
one that is evidently assembled in the USA if that kind of thing is important
to you that is both heavy and and rugged feeling enough for me to be fairly
confident that I could kill a man with it sorry I didn't tell him I was going
to do that if the need arose it also has a metal keychain loop on one end a nice
upgrade from the last SSD controller based USB drive I checked out and a
standard rubber USB port cover a significant downgrade from other designs
that I've seen that is sure to get lost quite quickly and then the last nice
thing I have to say about it physically completing the sandwich is is that
compared to that other drive it's much skinnier making inserting it into
closely spaced ports much easier a bit
more on specs before we jump into benchmarks though it's backwards compatible with USB 2 but obviously
works best on a USB 3 port with support for uasp a data transfer protocol that's
better optimized for random reads and wrs and vision Tech claims that you can
achieve up to 445 megabytes per second read and 440
megabytes per second right well above what we were able to do with our flash
Voyager GTX from Corsair the only other similar SSD in your pocket based product
that we've seen so here we are we've got a pretty simple Benchmark Suite today
black Magic's disc speed test gives us a really clear idea of how this drive will
perform in what is in my daily life anyway a typical workload by reading and
writing compressible data to and from the drive it should be noted that it's
important that the data is compressed ible for a sand for space drive like
this because it will not perform nearly as well with incompressible data
especially given how few flash chips there are on the drive
itself so while it appears that I wasn't able to replicate the numbers from the
box this is still one wicked fast USB
drive about the same speed as our Angel bird SSD to go pocket that is
considerably bulkier and more expensive but then also available in higher
capacities we've got a 120 gig version of The Vision Tech here but there's also
a 240 gig and that is pretty much it now
it should be noted guys when looking at these results that you will need to be
cognizant of what usb3 controller you're
using on your computer because if you have an older one you might not see
numbers this high with anything the Voyager GTX the vision Tech usb3 120 gig
solid state drive man they got to work on their product names or the angel bird
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